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Andy Tay graduated in 2014 from NUS with a First-Class Honors in Biomedical Engineering. He later headed to the University of California, Los Angeles for his PhD studies and graduated in 2017 as the recipient of the Harry M Showman Commencement Award. Andy next received his postdoctoral training at Stanford University before heading to Imperial College London as an 1851 Royal Commission Brunel Research Fellow. He is currently a Presidential Young Professor in NUS. Andy is a recipient of international awards including the Interstellar Initiative Early-Career Faculty Award, Christopher Hewitt Outstanding Young Investigator Award, Terasaki Young Innovator Award. He is listed as a 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 (US/Canada, Science), 2020 World Economic Forum Young Scientist and 2022/3 Top 2% Scientist in the World by Stanford University.

    Congratulations to Winners from Biomedical Engineering Department of NUS Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize and CDE Innovation & Research Award; Chai Chin Wei, Chen Xiayu, Divyalakshmi Balasubramaniam, Syarwina Ridwan, Totapally Sharmada, Shashaank Abhinav Venkatesh, Arthur Ho Qi Qiang.  

Dr. Shou, a research fellow and Ph.D. graduate from Prof. Andy Tay’s lab (lab homepage) in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and iHealthTech, has been honored with the ibidi Paper Award 2024. This award celebrates exceptional contributions from early career scientists in the field of 3D cell culture research. Dr. Shou’s first-author publication in Advanced

Professor Lim Chwee Teck, Director of the Institute for Health Innovation & Technology at the National University of Singapore (NUS iHealthtech) and NUSS Professor, has been elected to the prestigious Fellowship of the Royal Society, in recognition of his invaluable contributions to science. (click here to read more: https://news.nus.edu.sg/prof-lim-chwee-teck-elected-fellow-of-the-royal-society/)

  Congratulations to Associate Professor Shao Huilin and Dr Mabel Nguyen for being awarded Top 50 Asia Women Tech Leaders. read more here: https://asiawomentech.com/winners/

Assistant Professor Eliza Fong’s team develops new platform that significantly reduces drug testing and screening time for cancer patients  In collaboration with the National Cancer Centre Singapore, Dr. Fong and team have developed a novel platform that can significantly reduce the time needed to determine the efficacy of anti-cancer drugs. In this first-of-its-kind technology, patient tumours

An innovative magnetic wound-healing gel, developed by researchers at CDE, promises to accelerate the healing of diabetic wounds, reduce the rates of infection recurrence, and in turn, lower cases where limb amputation is necessary. Lab tests have shown that treatment using the gel heals diabetic wounds about three times faster than current conventional approaches, the

  Nine Biomedical Engineering, Life Sciences, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Duke-NUS Medicine students made NUS proud by placing 3rd in the International Genetically Engineered Machines (https://igem.org/ ) competition out of 167 undergraduate teams. The team was also awarded the ‘Best Foundational Advance’ prize, the Gold Medal Award, and nominated for Best Wiki, Best New

A new assistive device jointly developed by researchers at CDE could offer significant strides towards improving the lives of individuals battling muscular dystrophy. Named the “FUNction Device” it aims to empower those affected by the condition to use smartphones and tablets, even in the advanced stages of the disease. The device has been jointly developed

Dr. Suhito wins the ASEAN-ROK award for Excellence in Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) Pioneer category. Dr. Suhito is a research fellow in Prof. Andy Tay’s lab (lab homepage) in department of biomedical engineering. This annual award is given by the government of Republic of Korea (ROK) in support of Science and Technology Policy Institute

    NUS BME Students (Thura Soe, Soo Jun Boon, Teo Yu Xuan, Zhou Shude & Syarwina Ridwan) clinched the 1st runner up for their non-invasive blood glucometer at the Engineering Innovation Challenge (EIC) 2023! The team received the award from Mr Heng Swee Keat, Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economics Policies during

Congratulations to Professor Lim Chwee Teck for elected Fellow of the Institutions of Engineers Singapore