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30 Oct 2020

Cardiac geneticist is inaugural Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Professor in Medicine

Professor Roger Foo Sik Yin, Director-Designate of the Cardiovascular Disease Translational Research Programme and Deputy Director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, has been appointed the inaugural Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Professor in Medicine. The endowed professorship supported by the UAE foundation will help drive research in heart disease and heart health of diabetic patients.

23 Oct 2020

Singapore researchers achieve big leap in the early diagnosis of gastric cancer through development of non-invasive blood-based test

After eight years of discovery research, product development and clinical validation, a team of clinicians and scientists from Singapore has developed a non-invasive blood-based diagnostic test for gastric cancer.

16 Oct 2020

Transforming the future of healthcare through artificial intelligence

The stuff of science fiction not so long ago, artificial intelligence (AI) is now powering a dynamic new range of customised, single patient trials that are proving to be more effective than traditional, templated clinical treatments.

21 Sep 2020

Novel cancer and flu vaccine technology adapted for COVID-19 vaccine candidate for elderly

Researchers from Monash University and the National University of Singapore have adapted new cancer and pan-influenza vaccine technology to developing a COVID-19 vaccine targeted for the elderly.

14 Sep 2020

Associate Professor Wang Wenru named American Academy of Nursing Fellow

Nurse scientist to use prestigious designation to pursue better health for chronic disease patients in Singapore.

11 Sep 2020

Finding needles in the haystack: Clinician-scientists discover new biomarkers to predict heart failure after a heart attack

New heart failure biomarkers found: A new study published in “Circulation”, conducted by Associate Professor Mark Chan and Professor A. Mark Richards from the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, combined two powerful new technologies: large-scale plasma proteomics and single cell transcriptomics. This ground-breaking work led to the discovery of new biomarkers and potential treatment targets to prevent heart failure from happening after a heart attack.

03 Sep 2020

Genetic map of the heart opens new ways of understanding heart disease

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine have developed the first heart genomic "connectome" – a map of the genes in the heart and the “switches” that connect to and control them; making it possible to study how genetic differences between individuals affect heart disease responses, discover new disease-associated genes and devise new drugs based on gene targets.

28 Aug 2020

Cross-disciplinary teams at NUS Medical Grand Challenge come together to solve healthcare dilemmas

This year, the fourth edition of the competition organised by the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine took place online for the first time. The innovative solutions of 21 teams, which included innovations motivated by the current pandemic, were assessed by a panel of judges representing a variety of industries such as information technology, healthcare and engineering.

05 Aug 2020

Virtual reality gaming for medical students in the time of pandemic

Educators at NUS Medicine have created a digital gaming system for medical students to acquire understanding of patient safety and the importance of inter-professional communications in the operating theatres, reducing the risks of exposure to aerosol-generating procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic.

22 Jul 2020

Hitting the sweet spot: A solution for inadequate adolescent sleep

Researchers from Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore who have researched different adolescent sleep schedules over half a decade report on finding a sweet-spot in solving the challenge of adolescent sleep inadequacy.