NMRC2020

SingHealth Duke-NUS AMC Takes Home 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, we recognise 27 clinician scientists and researchers who have won 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, 32 budding clinician scientists received the Clinician Innovator Development Awards, NMRC Research Training Fellowship and MOH Healthcare Research Scholarship programmes. Collectively, these awards and programmes transform medicine and improve patient care for Singapore and beyond.

Full listing of award winners as follows:

(NMRC awards from Nov 2018 – Nov 2019 grant call cycles)

SINGAPORE TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH INVESTIGATOR AWARD (STaR)
Prof Aung Tin SNEC, SERI, DUKE-NUS	Prof Salvatore Albani SingHealth, KKH, Duke-NUS			Prof Teh Bin Tean NCCS, Duke-NUS
CLINICIAN SCIENTIST AWARD – SENIOR INVESTIGATOR (CSA-SI)
Prof Carolyn Lam NHCS, Duke-NUS Prof Jodhbir Mehta SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS Prof Koh Woon Puay Duke-NUS			Prof Narayanan Gopalakrishna Iyer NCCS, Duke-NUS Prof Paul Michael Yen Duke-NUS
CLINICIAN SCIENTIST AWARD – INVESTIGATOR (CSI-INV)
Assoc Prof Andrea Low Hsiu Ling SGH, Duke-NUS Asst Prof Anita Chan SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS Clin Assoc Prof Daniel Tan NCCS, Duke-NUS Asst Prof Danny Cheung SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS Clin Assoc Prof Derrick Chan KKH, Duke-NUS Assoc Prof Jenny Low SGH, Duke-NUS			Assoc Prof Lim Chwee Ming SGH, Duke-NUS Asst Prof Monisha Esther Nongpiur SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS Assoc Prof Nagaendran Kandiah NNI, Duke-NUS Asst Prof Nicole Keong NNI, Duke-NUS Asst Prof Wan-Yee Teo KKH, NCCS, Duke-NUS Assoc Prof Yap Yoon Sim NCCS, Duke-NUS
TRANSITION AWARD (TA)
Asst Prof Grace Yang Meijuan NCCS, Duke-NUS Asst Prof Jacqueline Chua SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS Adj Asst Prof Lee Jan Hau KKH, Duke-NUS Asst Prof Ryan Eyn Kidd Man SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS			Asst Prof Shirin Kalimuddin SGH, Duke-NUS Asst Prof Teo Yi Chong Kelvin SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS Asst Prof Tham Yih Chung SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS
CLINICIAN INNOVATOR DEVELOPMENT AWARDS
Dr Ng Tze Kiat SGH Assoc Prof Ng Wai Hoe CGH, NNI, Duke-NUS			Dr Tan Ngiap Chuan SHP Dr Quah Lishan Jessica CGH
NMRC RESEARCH TRAINING FELLOWSHIP
Dr Chong Jun Hua NHCS Dr Hairil Rizal Bin Abdullah SGH Dr Hamid Rahmatullah Bin Abd Razak SKH Dr Jiang Lei SGH Dr Ko Kwan Ki SGH			Dr Koong Ying Leng Agnes SHP Dr Michaela Seng Su-fern KKH Clin Assoc Prof Tan Cheng Sim Anna SERI Dr Tan Hong Chang SGH
MOH HEALTHCARE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP – Master of Clinical Investigation (MCI) Programme
Dr Azizah Binte Mohamed Afif SGH Dr Chan Wan Ying NCCS Dr Chen Kaina CGH, MOHH Dr Feng Jiajun SGH, MOHH Dr Huang Zijuan NHCS Dr Koh Shimin Jasmine NNI Dr Kok Yee On SGH, MOHH Dr Li Weiling Lydia CGH Dr Liow Ming Han Lincoln SGH Dr Loh Wann Jia CGH		Dr Mariko Koh Siyue SGH Dr Ng Zhi Min KKH Dr Tan Yu Guang SGH, MOHH Dr Tan Zehao SGH, MOHH Dr Tay Hui Boon SKH Dr Tay Yu-Kwang Donovan SKH Dr Vanessa Tan Yee Jueen SGH Dr Wong Yu Jun CGH Dr Zhuang Qingyuan NCCS