NMRC Awards 2022

SINGHEALTH DUKE-NUS AMC RESEARCHERS WIN NATIONAL RESEARCH AWARDS

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