Press Releases

08 Feb 2022

Harvesting baker's yeast for ageing-related therapeutics

Researchers from Singapore and the UK successfully engineer common baker's yeast to produce D-lysergic acid (DLA), an ingredient used in medicine for dementia and Parkinson's Disease.

08 Feb 2022

NUS Medicine cardiovascular research team develops anticoagulant drugs with high anticlotting efficacy and minimal bleeding

A team lead by Research Assistant Professor Koh Cho Yeow from the Cardiovascular Diseases Translational Research Programme at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) and Cardiovascular Research Institute, Associate Professor Mark Chan, from the Department of Medicine, NUS Medicine, who is also the Deputy Director (Clinical Research Matters) from the Cardiovascular Research Institute and National University Heart Centre, as well as, Professor R. Manjunatha Kini from the Department of Biological Sciences at NUS, developed a series of thrombin inhibitors to be powerful anticoagulants, commonly known as blood thinners or anticlotting medications.

08 Feb 2022

Medical education goes Holographic with mixed reality from Microsoft

NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine partners with Microsoft to useholographic technology to teach medical and nursing undergraduates

08 Feb 2022

Antibody from recovered COVID-19 patients found to reduce severity of disease

Study found that an antibody, P36-5D2, demonstrated a substantial decrease in infectious virus load in the lungs and brain, and reduced lung disease in laboratory models

13 Jan 2022

Antibody from recovered COVID-19 patients found to reduce severity of disease

Researchers at NUS Medicine and Beijing Tsinghua University found that an antibody, P36-5D2, demonstrated a substantial decrease in infectious virus load in the lungs and brain, and reduced lung disease in laboratory models.

11 Jan 2022

Medical education goes Holographic with mixed reality from Microsoft

NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine partners with Microsoft to use holographic technology to teach medical and nursing undergraduates.

13 Dec 2021

NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine students and researchers develop novel algorithm to assess immunotherapy benefit in stomach cancer patients

Led by Assistant Professor Raghav Sundar from the Department of Medicine at NUS Medicine, the team of three fifth-year medical students and one third-year medical student ran the algorithm through over 500,000 simulations to demonstrate its robustness and explore its limits of error.

11 Dec 2021

NUS Medicine and Duke-NUS researchers to study immune response of COVID-19 vaccines in children

Led by Asst Prof Elizabeth Tham, researchers from NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Duke-NUS Medical School are working together to recruit participants for a non-interventional observational study aimed at studying immune responses to COVID-19 vaccines in different groups of children Contact the study team at marvels@nuhs.edu.sg.

08 Dec 2021

NUS Medicine cardiovascular research team develops anticoagulant drugs with high anti-clotting efficacy and minimal bleeding

 A team led by Research Assistant Prof Koh Cho Yeow and Associate Prof Mark Chan from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, as well as Prof R. Manjunatha Kini from the NUS Department of Biological Sciences searched tick saliva for novel anticlotting proteins and then modified the amino acid sequences of these proteins to produce these powerful anticoagulants with high anticlotting efficacy but minimal bleeding.

30 Nov 2021

NUS researchers discover novel mechanisms of memory formation in little-known hippocampal CA2 sub-region

 NUS Medicine PhD student, Amrita Benoy and Associate Professor Sajikumar Sreedharan, from the Healthy Longevity Translational Research Programme, discovered that the CA2 sub-region of the hippocampus is critical in social memory formation, which guides social interactions.