Overview
A Neuroscience Translational Research Programme (TRP) is formed to realise the true potential of NUS Neuroscience for the following reasons:
- It will establish a foundational framework vital for the recruitment of high-flying faculty from overseas and retaining local talent.
- It will catalyse opportunities for impactful research, attracting the next generation of clinician-scientists and clinicians across neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry and geriatrics.
- It will increase cohesion between current faculty in the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUSMed) and i) the National University Health System (NUHS); ii) other parts of NUS including but not limited to the Department of Biological Sciences (DBS), Engineering, Computing.
- It will ensure that we are not left behind other institutions like SingHealth or the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in the emerging island-wide plans for major RIE2030 investments in neurodegeneration, mental health and healthy aging via the National Research Foundation (NRF) and the National Medical Research Council (NMRC).
Vision
A future in which the most devastating neurological diseases can be detected before symptoms emerge, slowed in their progression, and ultimately prevented - through discoveries made at NUS and delivered to patients through world-class clinical partnerships.
Mission
To discover how to detect, slow, stop, reverse and prevent human neurological disease in areas where treatments are inadequate or absent - and to break down the barriers between fundamental science and clinical medicine that have, for too long, slowed the journey from discovery to patient.
Leadership
Program Chair
Professor Rickie Patani
Deputy Program Chair
Professor Soong Tuck Wah
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Research Directors
Executive Committee
Principal Investigators
Primary PI
Professor Vathsala Anantharaman
Medicine
Secondary PI
Distinguished Professor Ashok Venkitaraman
Cancer Science Institute of Singapore
Assistant Professor Anand Jeyasekharan
Cancer Science Institute of Singapore
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