Faculty Staff

Diana Lim

MBBS, FRCPath, FRCPA
Assistant Professor
Consultant,
Department of Pathology

Tel: +65 6772 6119
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Clinical Interest / Subspecialty

Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy of pancreas, thyroid and lung
Molecular Diagnostics
Molecular mechanisms of cancer metastasis
Chemical pathology
Haemotology/hematopathology
Molecular genetic pathology

Education

2001 – MBBS, National University of Singapore
2008 – FRCPath Royal College of Pathologists, United Kingdom
2008 – FRCPA, Royal College of Pathologists, Australasia

Professional / Clinical experience

Consultant, Department of Pathology, National University Hospital 2010 - present
Gynecological cancer diagnostics and targeted therapeutics
Cancer biomarker discovery
1. SALL4 is a new target in endometrial cancer. Li A, Jiao Y, Yong KJ, Wang F, Gao C, Yan B, Srivastava S, Lim GS, Tang P, Yang H, Tenen DG, Chai L. Oncogene. 2013 Dec 16. [Epub ahead of print]PMID:24336327
2. Precursors and pathogenesis of ovarian carcinoma. Lim D, Oliva E. Pathology. 2013 Apr;45(3):229-42. PMID:23478230
3. Precursors and pathogenesis of ovarian carcinoma. Lim D, Oliva E. Pathology. 2013 Apr;45(3):229-42. PMID:23478230
4. Old versus new FIGO staging systems in predicting overall survival in patients with uterine leiomyosarcoma: a study of 86 cases. Lim D, Wang WL, Lee CH, Dodge T, Gilks B, Oliva E. Gynecol Oncol. 2013 Feb;128(2):322-6. PMID:23153591.
5. Endocervical involvement in endometrial adenocarcinoma is not prognostically significant and the pathologic assessment of the pattern of involvement is not reproducible. Zaino RJ, Abendroth C, Yemelyanova A, Oliva E, Lim D, Soslow R, Delair D, Hagemann IS, Montone K, Zhu J. Gynecol Oncol. 2013 Jan;128(1):83-7. PMID:23063759
6. Dual-colour HER2/chromosome 17 chromogenic in situ hybridisation enables accurate assessment of HER2 genomic status in ovarian tumours. Yan B, Choo SN, Mulyadi P, Srivastava S, Ong CW, Yong KJ, Putti T, Salto-Tellez M, Lim GS. J Clin Pathol. 2011 Dec;64(12):1097-101. PMID: 21896578
7. The morphologic spectrum of uterine PEC-cell associated tumors in a patient with tuberous sclerosis. Lim GS, Oliva E. Int J Gynecol Pathol. 2011 Mar;30(2):121-8. PMID:21293289
8. HPV16 E2 is an immediate early marker of viral infection, preceding E7 expression in precursor structures of cervical carcinoma. Xue Y, Bellanger S, Zhang W, Lim D, Low J, Lunny D, Thierry F. Cancer Res. 2010 Jul 1;70(13):5316-25
9. Nonendometrioid endometrial carcinomas. Lim D, Oliva E. Semin Diagn Pathol. 2010 Nov;27(4):241-60. PMID:21309259
10. Diverse phenotypic profile of uterine tumors resembling ovarian sex cord tumors: an immunohistochemical study of 12 cases. de Leval L, Lim GS, Waltregny D, Oliva E. Am J Surg Pathol. 2010 Dec;34(12):1749-61. PMID:21084963