NUS BME students Team in Top 3 of the International iGEM Competition

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 Composite Part, Best Presentation and Best Model, a testament to their outstanding efforts.

Recent News

Professor Lim Chwee Teck elected Fellow of the Royal Society

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/)

Dr Shao Huilin and Dr Mabel Nguyen awarded Top 50 Asia Women Tech Leaders

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 research featured in the Straits Times

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