N2CR Site Specific Resources Clinic

You are cordially invited to attend the N2CR Site-Specific Resources (SSR) Clinic (held in partnership with Tissue Repository/Pathology) on Monday 22nd May. This clinic will be useful to researchers looking to procure clinical samples for their research (details below).   SSR Clinic Date: Monday 22nd May 2023 Timing: 3pm – 4:30pm Venue: MD4-02-03E - MD4 Microbiology, Seminar room, Level 2 Speakers: Dr Eng Chon Boon (Tissue Repository), A/Prof Victor Lee (Pathology), SSR team   Topics to be covered Step-by-step guide on application for tissues How N2CR/TR can help with: (a) Finding clinical collaborators (b) DSRB amendments Cost incurred with tissue […]

Oxford Nanopore Lecture

Oxford Nanopore Technologies Singapore will be holding a short seminar in NUS on 23 May 2023. Jointly organized by N2CR, GeDaC and CSI Singapore, this seminar will highlight the various technologies Oxford Nanopore can offer for RNA and clinical research. All N2CR members are invited to attend.

N2CR PhD Open House 2023

  N2CR will be holding an open house for prospective PhD students and for those interested in finding out more about studying cancer biology. Principal Investigators and Research Scientists will be sharing little about the research projects so do come down to learn more about the potential areas of research you could be part of. We hope to see you there! :) Date: 12 July 2023 Time: 10 am - 1 pm Venue: NUS MD6 04-01A SMART Classroom

CSI-N2CR Invited Speaker Seminar

Prof Song Shumei from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, will be in Singapore in July for the Singapore Gastric Cancer Consortium. She'll be kindly stopping by NUS to give a talk on: "Novel targets and Targeting Strategies for Gastric Cancer Progression and Metastasis--focus on Hippo/YAP1 signaling in peritoneal metastasis" Date: 20 July 2023 Time: 1 -2 pm Venue: MD11 CRC Auditorium Host: Dr Raghav Sundar  

N2CR Precision Cancer Medicine Thematic Seminar – Aug 2023

You are invited to the NUS Centre for Cancer Research (N2CR) – Precision Cancer Medicine (PCM) Thematic Seminar on Tuesday, 15 August 2023, 2 – 3 pm. Kindly find the Zoom link details below and please refer to the poster for more information.   Theme: Precision Cancer Medicine Host:      A/Prof Edward Chow Venue:  Online via ZOOM Speaker:  Assistant Professor Liu Boxiang Title :         Towards a cell-type-specific understanding of complex diseases Website: www.boxiangliulab.com  Publications for pre-reading: Abundant associations with gene expression complicate GWAS follow-up. (2019). Nature Genetics https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6904208/ Genetic effects on gene expression across human tissues. (2017). Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24277 Genetic regulatory […]

TREX Grant Call 2023 (August)

We would like to invite you to the upcoming Translation Exchange (TREX) club meeting, to be held on Wednesday 16th August, 6pm. As illustrated below, TREX club meetings are held to facilitate collaboration between researchers from Cancer Science Institute (CSI), NUS Centre for Cancer Research (N2CR) and National University Cancer Institute (NCIS). Projects discussed at the meeting will be eligible for funding and will be selected by vote. Meeting details Date: Wednesday 16th August 2023 Time: 6pm Venue: MD6-13-02N – CeTM – L13 conference room (13-02N)     Funding Details: SGD 30,000 per project for a 1-year period 3 projects […]

Joint NCIS and N2CR Seed Funding Programme

The following projects from the Feb 2022 Joint NCIS and N2CR Seed Funding Programme will be presented at the mini-symposium held on 29 Aug 2023, 9am – 11am, at NUHS Tower Block T08-04  

NUS – Kanagawa Symposium 2023 : Advances in Cancer Research

NUS-Kanagawa Symposium 2023 : Advances in Cancer Research is open for registration! Jointly organised by NUS Centre for Cancer Research (N2CR), Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine; in collaboration with Kanagawa Cancer Center Research Institute, Yokohama City University School of Medicine and the Kanagawa Prefectural Government. Come learn from field experts doing cutting edge research focusing on onco-immunology, RNA biology, genomics and ageing from both Singapore and Japan. Click here to register!  

N2CR Precision Cancer Medicine Thematic Seminar – Sept 2023

You are invited to the NUS Centre for Cancer Research (N2CR) – Precision Cancer Medicine (PCM) Thematic Seminar on Monday, 25 September 2023, 4.30 – 5.30 pm. Kindly find the Zoom link details below and please refer to the poster for more information. Theme: Precision Cancer Medicine Host:      A/Prof Glenn Bonney Venue:  Online via ZOOM Speaker 1:  Associate Professor Gautam Sethi Title :            Targeting pro-inflammatory transcription factors for cancer prevention and therapy  Speaker 2:  Associate Professor Allen Yeoh Title :            Finding Chemo: Precision medicine in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia Zoom link details Topic: N2CR PCM Thematic Seminar Time: September 25 2023 […]

N2CR Tissue Specific Carcinogenesis Thematic Seminar – Oct 2023

You are invited to the NUS Centre for Cancer Research (N2CR) – Tissue-Specific Carcinogenesis (TSC) Thematic Seminar on Friday, 13 October 2023, 2 – 3 pm. Kindly find the Zoom link details below and please refer to the poster for more information. Theme: Tissue-Specific Carcinogenesis Host:      Assistant Professor Cheok Chit Fang Venue:  Online via ZOOM Speaker 1:  Assistant Professor Tee Wee Wei Title :            Targeting transcriptional dysregulation in cancer: Insights from early development  Speaker 2:  Professor Goh Boon Cher Title :            Nasopharyngeal cancer immunology and immunotherapy   Zoom link details Topic: N2CR TSC Thematic Seminar Time: October 13 2023 2:00 […]

Site Specific Resources Workshop – Oct 2023

NUS Centre for Cancer Research (N2CR) is inviting you to a SSR Workshop Topic: N2CR SSR Workshop - 17 Oct 2023 Time: Oct 17, 2023 03:00 PM Singapore Join Zoom Meeting https://nus-sg.zoom.us/j/89746920579?pwd=Vy84cit2a21Pcm44NDdaZndHWGlZdz09 Meeting ID: 897 4692 0579 Passcode: 916044