Press Releases

22 Aug 2017

NUS Medicine and Albert Einstein College of Medicine Institute for Aging Research announce research collaboration

The Centre for Healthy Ageing at the National University Health System (NUHS) is committed to finding strategies to keep the Singapore population healthy, longer. The Institute for Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein) in New York has a similar goal and is launching a clinical trial to test a drug they hope will keep people healthy and delay or prevent multiple chronic diseases simultaneously. After discussion, the two Institutes have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, designed to facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration as they seek to combat the ravages of ageing.

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22 Aug 2017

NUS Medicine boosts research into ageing with appointment of leading scientist

An internationally renowned expert has been appointed to lead ongoing efforts at the National University of Singapore to understand the human ageing process and how to extend the period of healthy life or healthspan.

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18 Aug 2017

NUS students launch competition to find answers to healthcare challenges

Over the past 12 months, students from the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and their counterparts from the Engineering, Law, Arts and Business faculties have been working hard in attempts to find solutions to a number of healthcare problems. The students, grouped into 17 teams, are taking part in the inaugural Medical Grand Challenge (MGC).

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24 Jul 2017

More university applicants list Nursing as top choice

More students are choosing to study Nursing at the National University of Singapore (NUS), according to the NUS Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, which offers Singapore’s only Bachelor of Science (Nursing) programme for A-level holders and polytechnic graduates.

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13 Jun 2017

The Seventh International Meeting on Synthetic Biology (SB 7.0)

NUS Synthetic Biology for Clinical and Technological Innovation (SynCTI) is co-organising the Seventh International Meeting on Synthetic Biology (SB 7.0) from 13 to 16 June 2017 at the NUS University Cultural Centre. The conference will bring together a global community of synthetic biology practitioners to share, learn and debate on the latest efforts in the rapidly advancing field, and to build synergistic global partnerships.

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23 May 2017

NUS Medicine's bioethics casebook to help the community care for the aged

NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine's Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE) will launch a Singapore Bioethics Casebook titled ‘Caring for Older People in an Ageing Society’ on 24 May 2017. The Casebook features 10 case studies with situations that go beyond the clinic and into the community, and beyond mainstream issues in medical ethics to focus on the everyday ethical challenges faced by family caregivers, domestic workers, case managers, volunteers, and the aged themselves.

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20 Jan 2017

Medical textbook by NUS professors is an unexpected hit

Titled ‘Guide to the Essentials in Emergency Medicine’, the textbook is the work of Drs Shirley Ooi and Peter Manning, both senior doctors at the NUH Emergency Medicine Department (EMD) and also associate professors at the NUS medical school. The Guide contains practical instructions that help emergency physicians tackle the most life-threatening and common conditions. Besides hospitals, the textbook is also used by general practitioners to diagnose and treat patients in their clinics, and medical students to learn about illnesses.

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20 Oct 2016

NUS Medicine researchers develop potential oral anti-diabetic drug

After 20 years of extensive research, a made-in-Singapore oral anti-diabetic drug has been developed by the Department of Pharmacology of the NUS Yong Loo School of Medicine. Working together with the Singapore Clinical Research Institute and the National University Health System, the team behind DAA-1's development today announced the successful completion of a Phase I clinical trial of the anti-diabetic drug.

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12 May 2016

House dust mite allergens damage DNA, kill lung cells and worsens asthma

Asthma afflicts 300 million people around the world and is one of the most common chronic illnesses in children. In Singapore, about 20 per cent of children have asthma, while 5 per cent of adults suffer from the problem.

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04 May 2016

NUS and Universitas Gadjah Mada to collaborate on medical education and research

A $1 million gift from Indonesian philanthropist Dato Sri Prof Dr Tahir has provided the momentum for a new partnership in medical education and research between NUS and one of Indonesia’s largest and most prestigious universities, Universitas Gadjah Mada.

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