Date: 4 May 2017
Time: 8-9AM
Venue: Seminar Room T09- 04, Level 9, NUHS Tower Block
Chairperson: Prof Kua Ee Heok, Senior Consultant, Dept. of Psychological Medicine, NUH
| Title | Speaker | Brief Abstract | ||
| Internet-of-Things for Drug Medication Adherence | Professor Chang, Joseph Sylvester, Director, VIRTUS, IC Design Centre of Excellence, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, College of Engineering, NTU | Medication adherence is a problem for Alzheimer’s patients. The speaker will talk about an innovative way to resolve this issue via an IoT device. | ||
| Exosome and Alzheimer’s disease | Dr Loh Tze Ping, Consultant, Clinical Chemistry Division, Dept. of Lab Medicine, NUH | The speaker will talk about exosome and the detection of Alzheimer’s disease as well as his plan to set up a biobank of patients from NUH with different stages of Alzheimer’s disease for biomarker discovery or validation. | ||
| NUH Tissue Repository | Dr Eng Chon Boon, Head, NUH Tissue Repository, Head, NCIS Cancer Registry, NUH | The NUH tissue repository is a multidisciplinary core NUHS facility supporting research in NUH in the area of bio banking. The speaker will talk about how the dept. of psychological medicine can tap onto this resource for their research work. |