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Contact Information

pattehm@nus.edu.sg

Telephone

+65 6772 4301

Research Themes

GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE
RENAL PATHOLOGY

Teh Ming

PROFESSOR, NUS
EMERITUS CONSULTANT, NUH

RESEARCH FOCUS

Tumour pathology especially of the upper gastrointestinal tract

BIOGRAPHY

Prof Teh Ming is an Emeritus Consultant in the Department of Pathology, NUH and Professor in the National University of Singapore. He graduated with a BA from Yale University in 1977 and a MD from Johns Hopkins University in 1981. He obtained his specialist degrees in Histopathology from the Royal College of Pathologist in Australasia and United Kingdom in 1987 and 1988 respectively. He was the HOD for the Department of Pathology from 2004-2016.

He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and contributed to chapters in textbooks on GI pathology/immunohistochemistry. Both his research and clinical interests are centered on the gastrointestinal tract and renal pathology.

AWARDS

NUHS Master Clinician Award 2019
National Day Awards 2022; Public Administration Bronze medal

Recent Publications

Single-Cell Atlas of Lineage States, Tumor Microenvironment, and Subtype-Specific Expression Programs in Gastric Cancer. Kumar V, et al. Cancer Discov. 2022 Mar 1;12(3):670-691. doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-21-0683. PMID: 34642171

ISM1 protects lung homeostasis via cell-surface GRP78-mediated alveolar macrophage apoptosis . Lam TYW, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Jan 25;119(4):e2019161119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2019161119. PMID: 35046017; PMCID: PMC8794848.

Severity of gastric intestinal metaplasia predicts the risk of gastric cancer: a prospective multicentre cohort study (GCEP). Lee JWJ, et al. Gut. 2022 May;71(5):854-863. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2021-324057. Epub 2021 May 11. PMID: 33975867; PMCID: PMC8995828.

Induction of Gastric Cancer by Successive Oncogenic Activation in the Corpus. Douchi D, et al. Gastroenterology. 2021 Dec;161(6):1907-1923.e26. doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2021.08.013. Epub 2021 Aug 12. PMID: 34391772.

Highly recurrent CBS epimutations in gastric cancer CpG island methylator phenotypes and inflammation. Padmanabhan N, et al. Genome Biol. 2021 Jun 1;22(1):167. doi:10.1186/s13059-021-02375-2. Erratum in: Genome Biol. 2021 Jun 17;22(1):181. PMID: 34074348; PMCID: PMC8170989..

Iqgap3-Ras axis drives stem cell proliferation in the stomach corpus during homoeostasis and repair. Matsuo J, et al. Gut. 2021 Oct;70(10):1833-1846. doi:10.1136/gutjnl-2020-322779. Epub 2020 Dec 8. PMID: 33293280; PMCID: PMC8458072.