NMRC Awards 2022

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Our heartiest congratulations to the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre's latest winners of the National Medical Research Council (NMRC) awards*, fellowships and scholarships!

This year, two teams led by NCCS and SNEC received the Open Fund-Large Collaborative Grant (OF-LCG) of S$25 million each for their research in liver cancer and glaucoma respectively.

We also recognize 20 clinician scientists and researchers who have received talent development awards under the Singapore Translational Research Investigator Award, Clinician Scientist Award and the Transition Award categories. These awards are presented to talented clinician scientists and researchers who do internationally-competitive and cutting edge translational and clinical research.

In addition, 2 healthcare professionals, including an allied health professional, received the Clinician Innovator Award and 3 clinician scientists received the Health Promotion, Preventive Health, Population Health and Health Services Research (HPHSR) Clinician Scientist Awards (HSCA) - Investigator award which aims to about significant and sustainable benefits to Singapore's health outcomes in areas of health promotion, preventive health, population health and health services research. These awards and programmes transform medicine and improve patient care for Singapore and beyond.

Full listing of award winners as follows:

*(NMRC awards from Jun ’21 and Nov ‘21 grant call cycles)

OPEN FUND- LARGE COLLABORATIVE GRANT (OF-LCG) S$25 Million

 

Precision Medicine in Liver Cancer across an Asia-Pacific Network (PLANet 2.0)

Prof Pierce Chow and his team from NCCS, A*STAR’s GIS and IMCB, CSI Singapore and Duke-NUS                    

TAckling & Reducing Glaucoma Blindness with Emerging Technologies (TARGET)

 

Prof Aung Tin and his team from SERI, CGH, Duke-NUS, A*STAR, NTU and NUHS

SINGAPORE TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH INVESTIGATOR AWARD (STaR)
Prof Derek John Hausenloy
DUKE-NUS, NHCS

Prof Marcus Ong
SGH, DUKE-NUS

Prof Patrick Tan Boon Ooi
DUKE-NUS, SINGHEALTH

Prof Stuart Cook
NHCS, Duke-NUS
Assoc Prof Toh Han Chong
NCCS, Duke-NUS

CLINICIAN SCIENTIST AWARD – SENIOR INVESTIGATOR (CSA-SI)

 

Prof Tina Wong 
SNEC, SERI, DUKE-NUS

CLINICIAN SCIENTIST AWARD – INVESTIGATOR (CSI-INV)

 

Dr Adeline Ng
NNI, Duke-NUS

Asst Prof Angela Koh
NHCS, Duke-NUS

Assoc Prof Donny Hoang
SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS

Assoc Prof Gavin Tan
SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS

Dr Lim Tze Peng
SGH, Duke-NUS

 

Assoc Prof Liu Yu-Chi
SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS

Asst Prof Saumya Shekhar Jamuar
KKH, Duke-NUS

Asst Prof Shweta Singhal
SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS

Assoc Prof Sng Ban Leong
KKH, Duke-NUS

HEALTH PROMOTION, PREVENTIVE HEALTH, POPULATION HEALTH AND HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH (HPHSR) CLINICIAN SCIENTIST AWARDS (HSCA)- INVESTIGATOR

Assoc Prof Charumathi Sabanayagam
SERI, Duke-NUS  

Asst Prof Chetna Malhotra

Duke-NUS         

Assoc Prof Low Lian Leng
SCH, Duke-NUS                   

Dr Tham Yih Chung
SERI, Duke-NUS

CLINICIAN INNOVATOR AWARD

 

Dr Jasmine Ong
SGH

 

Dr Tay Hsien Ts'ung
SGH, Duke-NUS

TRANSITION AWARD (TA)

Clin Assoc Prof Chong Shu-Ling
KKH, Duke-NUS               

Asst Prof Francis Wong
SKH, Duke-NUS

Clin Asst Prof Jason Chan
NCCS, Duke-NUS

Clin Asst Prof Lohendran Baskaran
NHCS, Duke-NUS

 

Assoc Prof Marcus Ang
SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS

Dr Oh Choon Chiat
SGH, Duke-NUS

Dr Troy Puar
CGH, Duke-NUS

NMRC Research Training Fellowship
 
 
Dr Lim Hui Jun
SGH

Dr Chiang Jianbang
NCCS
 
Dr Han Shuting
NCCS
 
Dr Tan Jing Ying Tira
NCCS
 
Dr Lee Jie Xin Joycelyn
NCCS
 
Dr Li Weiquan James
CGH
 
Dr Neo Hui Shan Shirlyn
NCCS
 
Dr Lim Pin Miao Fiona
SNEC
 
Dr Oh Choon Chiat
SGH
 
Dr Tan Hwee Leong
SGH
 
Dr Tan Shao Ern Timothy
KKH

Dr Koh Jean Aan Mark
KKH
Dr Teh Kim Jun, Kevin
SGH
 
Dr Roderica Ng
SGH
 
Dr Mok Chi Wei  
CGH
 
Dr Tay Shu Wen
SGH
 
Dr Shen Jia Yi
NNI
 
Dr Cheong May Anne
SGH
 
Dr Liu Zhenghong
SGH
 
Dr Chua Jian Kai Andy
SKH
 
Dr Chen Hui Lionel Raphael
SGH
 
Dr Fong Sheng
SGH
 
Dr Tan Chin Kimg
CGH
 
 

 

 

Last updated on 26 Apr 2023