NUS Young Investigator Award 2014
Published: 22 Dec 2014
Dr Polly Chen Leilei has won the NUS Young Investigator Award 2014 for her excellent research proposal on “Understanding RNA Editing in Liver Cancer: Causes, Functional Consequences, and Therapeutic Potentials”.
The NUS Young Investigator Award 2014 is an initiative from the NUS Office of the Deputy President (Research & Technology) to offer research-funding to highly promising young faculty members who are likely to make significant contributions to the development of research in the NUS. This is in recognition of the support required by these young faculty members in their early career development activities, especially projects that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries or break new ground.
Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Dr Chen is on an upward trajectory and has exhibited good potential as a researcher in the area of RNA editing in Cancer. Her group is the first in the world to describe RNA editome imbalance in human liver cancer and esophageal carcinoma (Chen et al., Nature Med, 2013; Chan et al., Gut, 2014; Qi et al., Cancer Res, 2014; Qin et al., Cancer Res, 2014).
As an extraordinary young investigator, Dr Chen is already leading in an important and novel research area which is likely to result in major findings of importance in cancers, highly relevant to the Singapore population i.e. liver and gastric cancers.
