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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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Congratulations to Dr. Deron Raymond Herr for receiving the Graduate Mentor of the Year (GRAMAY) Award 2020. The GRAMAY Award is an annual award that honors and celebrates faculty staff for their excellence in mentorship and the professional development of graduate students in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. The award is given to recognize the important key roles played by the Faculty staff in inspiring and nurturing future biomedical- and clinician-scientists. The award recipients should have shown excellence in graduate supervision, intellectual and professional development as well as career development of their graduate students.

Congratulations to A/P Tan Chay Hoon for receiving the Mentoring Innovation and Leadership in Educational Scholarship Award 2020. MILES Award was innitiated in APMEC 2006 to recognise international and local scholars of distinction in medical and health professions education.

Congratulations to A/P LOW Chian Ming on the successful SYNAPSE Inauguration and leading to signing the MOU.

Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) are working as members of an international team to produce a first-of-its-kind ultra-high resolution 3D comprehensive map of the human brain’s neural network. The effort involves teams from Singapore, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Australia and China have also expressed interest to be part of the project. Initiated at NUS, the Singapore team, comprising researchers from the local scientific community, will use synchrotrons – extremely powerful x-ray sources – to trace the complex and intricate networks that cover the brain.

Associate Professor Low Chian Ming from the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine’s Department of Pharmacology and Department of Anaesthesia is a co-founding member of this international consortium, and leads the team from Singapore. The team will work to construct the map of the human brain and coordinate the data management for this endeavour.

The work will link the synchrotron facilities in the Asia Pacific region under a collaboration called Synchrotron for Neuroscience – Asia Pacific Strategic Enterprise (SYNAPSE), which is expected to involve more than 1,000 researchers. Launched today at the NUS Shaw Foundation Alumni House Auditorium, the founding members of the initiative signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) committing to work together to complete their brain map project by 2024.

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