{"id":15128,"date":"2024-03-06T15:32:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T07:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/bme\/?post_type=nus-news&p=15128"},"modified":"2024-03-06T16:31:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T08:31:59","slug":"assistant-professor-eliza-fongs-research-featured-in-the-straits-times","status":"publish","type":"nus-news","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/bme\/news\/assistant-professor-eliza-fongs-research-featured-in-the-straits-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistant Professor Eliza Fong’s research featured in the Straits Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Assistant Professor Eliza Fong’s team develops new platform that significantly reduces drug testing and screening time for cancer patients<\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0In collaboration with the National Cancer Centre Singapore, Dr. Fong and team\u00a0have 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 resected from surgery can now be grown using bioengineered hydrogels and better preserved\u00a0ex vivo<\/i>\u00a0(outside of the body) compared to standard approaches, potentially accelerating the process for drug screening and testing for individual cancer patients.<\/div>\n
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The results of this study were published in the journal\u00a0Biomaterials<\/a><\/i>\u00a0on 20 January 2024.<\/div>\n
More details of this study can be found here: NUS News (https:\/\/news.nus.edu.sg\/singapore-scientists-develop-new-platform-that-significantly-reduces-drug-testing-and-screening-time-for-cancer-patients\/<\/a>) and on the Straits Times (https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/s-pore-scientists-create-way-to-preserve-cancer-tumour-cultures-for-better-targeted-drug-testing<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Assistant Professor Eliza Fong’s team develops new platform that significantly reduces drug testing and screening time for cancer patients \u00a0In collaboration with the National Cancer Centre Singapore, Dr. Fong and team\u00a0have 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":15130,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"news_category":[14],"class_list":["post-15128","nus-news","type-nus-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_category-bme"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/bme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/bme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/bme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nus-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/bme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/bme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15131,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/bme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15128\/revisions\/15131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/bme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/bme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/bme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=15128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}