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Lee Jeonghyeon, a PhD student from Assistant Professor Andy Tay’s lab in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, received the Mogam Foundation Global Scholarship 2025, which awards USD 10,000 to support outstanding young scientists in biomedical science. His research develops organoid platform to study human immunity. This award will further support his academic growth and sustain his

Prof Lim Chwee Teck has received the NUS Distinguished Alumni Award for demonstrating excellence and leadership as well as significant accomplishments, innovations, and contributions that have made a positive impact in his field of research, the community, and Singapore. https://news.nus.edu.sg/nus-honours-22-outstanding-alumni-for-their-service-to-alma-mater-and-contributions-to-society/  

Four of our department’s faculty members have been conferred prestigious awards by the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE) for their exemplary contributions to medical and biological engineering. https://news.nus.edu.sg/ifmbe-awards-biomedical-engineering-research-excellence/

Professor Lim Chwee Teck has received the President’s Science Award. It is the highest national honours for scientific research, recognizing individuals who have made outstanding contributions to advancing knowledge in science. https://www.psta.gov.sg/president-s-science-award-2025/  

Dr Andy Tay is a Presidential Young Professor at the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) College of Design and Engineering, and a Principal Investigator in the NUS Institute for Health Innovation & Technology (iHealthtech) and the NUS Tissue Engineering Programme under the NUS Life Sciences Institute. He is leading the emerging field of immuno-engineering, where

Professor Lim Chwee Teck, Director of the Institute for Health Innovation and Technology (iHealthtech) at NUS and NUS Society Professor, has been elected an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, one of the highest honours in global engineering. He is the first and only Singaporean to receive this distinction, adding to his earlier

Dr Andy Tay, Presidential Young Professorship, at the Department of Biomedical Engineering received the Young Scholar Award from the Asia Pacific Biomedical Engineering Consortium held on the campus of Tsinghua University. He gave a lecture on the importance of developing human-based immune organoids for drug screening and studying immune biology. 

Dr Andy Tay, Presidential Young Professorship, at the Department of Biomedical Engineering received the Young Investigator Award from the Society of Bioelectromagnetism. He gave a plenary lecture on the use of magneto-mechanical stimulations to enhance wound regeneration and tissue repair

  Prof Li Jun has been elected to be a Fellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE), Class 2025. The election to the IAMBE is a highly selective process. IAMBE Fellows are recognized for their outstanding technical and leadership contributions to the field of medical and biological engineering at an international

Congratulations to all 9 undergraduate students from Department of Biomedical Engineering for winning the NUS Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize & CDE Innovation & Research Award 2025. The award winners with their respective achievements are as follows: Winners of the High Achievement Award, NUS Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize & CDE Innovation & Research Award 2025, are Diya Subramanian, Zhang

Join us at the Robotics Fair on 8 March at the CDE Campus, in tandem with the NUS Open House! It’s a chance to witness how our cutting-edge projects could revolutionise the way we work, live, and play. Plus, enjoy free ice cream and try your luck at winning a Wolfram plushie with our robotic

Dr. Zhicheng Le received Young Investigator Award at the 18th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME 2024) and International Travel Award at the 15th BSRT Symposium 2024 Dr. Zhicheng received the IFMBE Young Investigators Award at the ICBME 2024 in Singapore, an initiative designed to encourage early-career investigators in the biomedical engineering field to showcase