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Congratulations to Dr. Alan Prem Kumar and A/P Gautam Sethi (from Department of Pharmacology) who have been ranked among the world’s most cited scientists. This is according to the newly unveiled list of Highly Cited Researchers™ 2020 by Clarivate.

The hotly anticipated annual list identifies researchers who demonstrate significant influence in their chosen field by publishing several highly cited papers during the last decade. Their names are drawn from the publications that rank in the top 1 per cent by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science™ citation index.

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Congratulations to Jay Migara Kavishka from the Le Lab (Department of Pharmacology) on winning the Global Undergraduate Award in Life Sciences and the RNA Biology Symposium’s Best Oral Presentation Award!

After a rigorous and lengthy judging process led by over 400 expert academics worldwide, UA announced those who have made it to the top in their chosen category! Out of over 4,100 submissions, 25 students have been selected as the highest performing entrants in their category for the 2020 programme. This is an outstanding achievement for some of the world’s brightest students, who are leading the way in top-class undergraduate research all across the world (undergraduateawards.com). Jay is the winner of the Life Sciences category this year.

Jay also presented his research on engineering extracellular vesicles for RNA drug delivery at the RNA Biology symposium organized by the Cancer Science Institute at NUS on October 2nd. He was the only undergraduate speaker and one among 3 speakers who received the best oral presentation awards.

Congratulations to Dr. Inthrani Raja INDRAN and Dr. Alan Prem KUMAR on their new appointments. Dr. INDRAN, a Lecturer and Deputy Education Director (Medicine) at Department of Pharmacology, is appointed as Director of OPA. Dr. KUMAR, a Research Assistant Professor at Department of Pharmacology, is appointed as Deputy Director. Their appointments take retrospective effect from 01 June 2020.

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Congratulations to Prof. Fred WONG and Prof. GOH Boon Cher on receiving the Long Service Medal at the National Day Awards 2020.

Established in 1962, the annual National Day Awards recognises various types of merit and service to the nation. Singaporeans and non-Singaporeans alike are honoured for outstanding contributions to the civil or military service, social and community work or excellent perforformance in their own field.

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Congratulations to our faculty members Dr. Indran (Teaching Excellence Awards) and Dr. Herr (Graduate Mentor of the Year Award) for receiving the NUS Medicine Awards.

Teaching Excellence Awards recognises faculty members who have shown a high level of performance, dedication and commitment to teaching. It also serves as an indication of the importance the institution accords to teaching.

Graduate Mentor of the Year Award honours and celebrates faculty staff for their excellence in graduate mentorship and the professional development of graduate students at NUS Medicine. The award is given to recognise the important key roles played by the faculty staff in inspiring and nurturing future biomedicaland clinician-scientists.

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An AI-driven digital medicine platform, called Quadratic Phenotypic Optimisation Platform (QPOP), developed by researchers from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at NUS is helping doctors make better clinical decisions when treating cancer patients. Associate Professor Edward Chow (right) is the leader of the team that developed QPOP and a principal investigator at the Department of Pharmacology, National University of Singapore

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Congratulations to Dr. Minh-Le on the investment in Carmine Therapeutics. Dr. Minh-Le is one of the scientific co-founders of Carmine.

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Congratulations to A/P Gavin Stewart Dawe on his new appointment. A/P Dawe is appointed as Head, Department of Pharmacology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore with effect from 01 July 2020.

Department of Pharmacology would like to express gratitude and deepest appreciation for Prof Fred Wong’s leadership to the department since 2014 and invaluable dedication to NUS.

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Congratulations to our Post Graduate Student, Dr. Bibek Gyanwali, on being elected as an executive committee member (Trainee Representative) of the Neuroimaging Professional Interest Area of The Alzheimer’s Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment.

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Preclinical data suggest the possibility of repurposing a drug for early intervention in envenoming by snake venom rich in metalloproteinases (Albulescu et al., this issue).

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