Press Releases

04 Nov 2026

NUS Medicine study identifies protein that could strengthen cancerfighting T cells against colorectal cancer

NUS Medicine researchers found that DUSP4 helps immune cells retain their cancer-killing ability, and that increasing its activity improved CAR-T cell performance against colorectal tumours.

26 Oct 2026

NUS Medicine establishes Josephine Tan Professorship in Breast Cancer Genomics to advance personalised breast cancer screening and prevention

Associate Professor Mikael Hartman will be appointed the inaugural Josephine Tan Professor in Breast Cancer Genomics, advancing research into individual breast cancer risk to inform more personalised screening and prevention, particularly for Asian women.

22 Oct 2026

One of the world's first personalised brain stimulation studies shows promise for the severe OCD with NUH and NUS Medicine extending the approach to depresison and anxiety

Building on an established NUH–NUS Medicine collaboration, the work combines clinical expertise and cutting-edge neuroimaging to improve outcomes for patients who have not responded to standard treatments

14 Oct 2026

Standardising wearable sleep data for clinical, research, and public health use

New Fundamental Sleep Measures (FSM) Specification establishes a common language for sleep tracking, paving the way for more meaningful clinical care, research, and public health.

12 Oct 2026

Earlier menopause linked to faster biological ageing, NUS Medicine study finds

NUS Medicine-led review of more than 550,000 women finds earlier menopause and a higher number of births were associated with modestly greater biological age acceleration, offering new insights into women’s health and healthy longevity.

06 Oct 2026

How short is too short? Long-term wearable data point to a more personal way of defining insufficient sleep

NUS researchers show that comparing sleep with an individual’s own long-term pattern can reveal sleep shortfall that fixed nightly cut-offs may miss.

14 Sep 2026

University students are less physically active and more sedentary than older adults in their 70s, NUS study finds

Researchers at the Centre for Sleep and Cognition at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS Medicine) have found that on average, university students are significantly less physically active and more sedentary than community-dwelling older adults in their 70s – upending conventional expectations that physical activity declines with age.

10 Sep 2026

NUS Medicine researchers identify promising broad-spectrum antiviral candidate against enteroviruses

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, have identified a promising antiviral compound that can inhibit a range of enteroviruses, including Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68), an emerging respiratory virus linked to severe respiratory illness and acute flaccid myelitis, a condition that can cause paralysis.

08 Sep 2026

Scientists reveal how blood cells release key signalling lipid

Scientists from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the United States have discovered how blood cells release an important signalling fat called sphingosine-1-phosphate, or S1P, into the bloodstream.

04 Sep 2026

NUHS@Home scales bed capacity 15-fold, saving 21,800 hospital bed-days

Held from 3 to 5 September 2026, Singapore's first behavioural and implementation sciences in health conference, Behavioural and Implementation Sciences in Health, Asia Conference 2026 (BISHAC 2026) spotlights AI, health innovation and successful scale-up of hospital-at-home care.  NUHS@Home was featured as a real-world case study of implementation science in action where Professor Nick Sevdalis, Director of BISI used implementation science methods to help NUHS@Home evaluate how best to expand the programme safely and effectively from a small pilot into a full-scale service.