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  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

Associate Professor Bina Rai was awarded the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) Strategic Partner Award (NUS) and Star Customer Award for her work with the Life Saving Force during the SCDF Parade 2024. The Strategic Partner Award recognises organisations for their close collaboration with SCDF, while the Star Customer Award is given to individuals who

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