Congratulations Dr. Rijan Gurung: Winner of NUS Medicine Outstanding Mentor Award for Research Fellows 2023
Dr. Gurung is a vascular biologist by training with a keen research interest in smooth muscle biology.
Congratulations Shaun Loong Seh Ern: Outstanding Undergraduate researcher Prize
Shaun Loong Seh Ern is a 4th year medical student who won the Outstanding Undergraduate researcher Prize and the 1st place for the Poster presented at Wong Hock Boon Society Research Day 2023.
NMRC OF-LCG Recipient: Prof Roger Foo
We are proud to announce that our NUSMed CardioVascular-Metabolic Disease TRP Program Director Prof Roger Foo has been awarded the highly competitive NMRC Open Fund – Large Collaborative Grant (OF-LCG) for Project RESET (Redirecting Immune, Lipid and Metabolic drivers of early cardiovascular disease). The primary objective of Project RESET is to identify novel biomarkers for […]
MOE AcRF Tier 1/ NUHS Seed Fund Recipient: Dr Soong Poh Loong
Warmest congratulations to Dr Soong Poh Loong for securing the prestigious grant; your dedication to research excellence is truly inspiring! The title of his project is ‘Genotype-phenotype assessment of variants of uncertain significance (VUS) in SCN5A with human stem cell derived cardiomyocytes’.
NMRC CS-IRG Recipient: Prof Roger Foo
Congratulations to our NUSMed CardioVascular-Metabolic Disease TRP Program Director, Prof Roger Foo for being awarded the NMRC Clinician-Scientist Individual Research Grant (CS-IRG). The project title is ‘Dissecting the role of Asparagine synthetase (Asns) in the cardiomyocyte cell state’.
NCSP v2.0 Recipient: Dr Mayank Dalakoti
We would like to congratulate the promising young clinician Dr Mayank Dalakoti for being awarded the NUHS Clinician Scientist Programme (NCSP v2.0), which supports young talents with funding to embark on their research and build their research portfolio to eventually compete and clinch a national-level competitive research grant or talent award. His Project title is […]
MOE AcRF Tier 1/ NUHS Seed Fund Recipient: Dr Sia Ching Hui
Congratulations Dr Sia Ching Hui for securing the MOE AcRF Tier 1/NUHS Seed Fund grant. The title of his project is ‘A Pilot Study of Histone Deacetylase Expression In-Vivo in Patients with Ischaemic Cardiomyopathy and Controls with Cardiac Positron-Emission Tomography-Magnetic Resonance Imaging using [11C]Martinostat’.
NMRC TA Recipient: Asst Prof Lim Shir Lynn
Heartiest congratulations to Asst Prof Lim Shir Lynn for being awarded the NMRC Transition Award. Her project title is ‘NEUROprotection via optimizINg cerebral blood flow afTer cArdiaC arresT (NEURO-INTACT)’
NMRC CNIG Recipient: Dr Sia Ching Hui
Congratulations Dr Sia Ching Hui on receiving the Clinician Scientist Individual Research Grant – New Investigator Grant. His project title is ‘Heart-Brain Changes in Acute Myocardial Infarction: Investigating the Association between Acute Cardiac Injury and Cognitive Decline’.
MOE AcRF Tier 3 Recipient: Prof Roger Foo
Heartiest congratulation to our NUSMed CardioVascular-Metabolic Disease TRP Program Director, Prof Roger Foo for being awarded the MOE AcRF Tier 3 grant for his project M2CardAGE (Redirecting Immune, Lipid and Metabolic drivers of early cardiovascular disease). The overarching goal of this project is to gain a mechanistic understanding of how the molecular and mechanical functions […]