Press Releases

27 Jan 2021

Efficient Lymphatic Drainage Slows Atherosclerosis Progression

Researchers from NUS Medicine have discovered that efficient lymphatic drainage is an important determinant of atherosclerosis progression and also demonstrated that the regression of atherosclerosis induced by the cholesterol-lowering drug, ezetimibe, was dependent on efficient lymphatic drainage.

26 Jan 2021

Digital Therapeutics for Seniors

A partnership between the Institute for Digital Medicine, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and Marsiling Grassroots Organisations and Sunlove Marsiling Senior Activity Centre.

06 Jan 2021

The nurse will see you now online

Nurse-clinicians, enabled by technology, provide care for recovering heart attack patients through telehealth – a system that can be as good as cardiologists’ face-to-face consultations.

29 Dec 2020

Estate of medical alumna bequeaths S$6.75M to her alma mater

The gift from Dr Freda Paul’s estate will enable NUS Medicine to establish the Freda Paul Bursary Fund, Freda Paul Professorship and student prizes, supporting female undergraduate medical students in their journey of learning and the advancement of an entire spectrum of translational research in the area of paediatrics.

08 Dec 2020

Keeping cool and safe in a hotter and more humid Singapore

NUS Medicine’s Human Potential Translational Research Programme embarks on new multidisciplinary, public health-focused project to study and identify solutions to manage heat stress in tropical climates.

13 Nov 2020

An MBBS with a difference

Undergraduate medical students at the National University of Singapore’s Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine now have the opportunity to study for a Master’s degree in addition to their medical qualification, the MBBS. The Intercalated Year Programme (IYP) will give these medical students opportunities to learn beyond their curriculum and equip them with additional knowledge and skills that they will need as future doctors working in complex environments where multidisciplinary collaboration and interactions are common.

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.