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15 June 2011Lab was awarded NMRC Exploratory grant Our Lab was awarded a two-year exploratory grant by the National Medical Research Council (NMRC) for a project entitled: "Marrying microRNAs and microfluidics to spawn new insights in CNS axon regeneration". Nov 2010Liz Lim was awarded a New Investigator NMRC grant Liz Lim was awarded a grant from the National Medical Research Council (NMRC) for new investigators (NIG) for her post-doc project entitled: "A photoactivation imaging approach to unravel the role of Disrupted in Schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) in axonal transport and neuronal polarization"
OCT 2010Research article was published in Cell Calcium Loo Chin Wong, Lu Bo and Kia Wee Tan published a paper in Cell Calcium, introducing a piece of software that analyzes Ca2+ traces in populations of single cells [PDF] 13 Nov 2009 DUNES Symposium 2009 The very first Symposium organized by DUKE-NUS Early Career Scientist Association (DUNEs) was held successfully on Nov 13, 2009 (Friday) at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singaproe, which consisted of serval well-designed programs: morning in-house oral presentations by DUKE-NUS researchers, afternoon career development talks by industry professionals, a whole day poster presentation, prize award ceremony for DUKE-NUS Photography competition 2009 and of course very nice lunch & tea breaks plus WINE and CHEESE which were generously sponsored by Office of Research, DUKE-NUS and bio-companies. This is a fitting event to showcase the scientific excellence of our junior research staff, and to encourage the sharing and communication of scientific knowledge and expertise within Duke-NUS. This inaugural Symposium served perfectly as the first of many such celebrations of the achievements of our early career scientists. The image above is the prize winning photo (scientific category) by our lab member Wong Loo Chin. [Read more] 28 Sep 2009 |
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DUKE-NUS Graduate Medical School (Duke-NUS) is now closer to moving
into its new campus with the completion of structural works (expected
moving-in date, February, 2009). The School with 24,000 sq meters of
space, will house some 500 researchers, faculty, staff and students
when it begin its 2009 term next August. The School's building will
be named after the late philanthropist Tan Sri Khoo Teck Puat who had
high regard for the importance of medicine and education. His Estate
had donated $80 million to Duke-NUS in his memory. [