Congratulations to the NUH-NUS Tissue Repository (TR) team for winning the Gold Award in the Safety Innovation Team Programme (SITP) 2007/08, a competition organized by the NUS Office of Safety, Health & Environment. The prize was awarded for their entry entitled “Reduction of exposure to infectious agents present in human tissues to the research community”. [READ MORE]
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We are pleased to announce that CeLS has won the Merit prize at the NUS Annual Safety & Health Performance Awards (ASHPA) 2007 organized by the Office of Safety, Health and Environment (OSHE) in January. |
The award presentation ceremony was held on 11 March 2008 at the CRC Auditorium. This is an annual exercise where awards are given out to recognize and reward departments, research Institutes and corporate offices which have put in place an office safety programme. [READ MORE]
The Office of Life Sciences is sponsoring a Safety Slogan Competition which is open to all students and staff working in the Centre for Life Sciences (CeLS). The aim of this competition is to engage all occupants of CeLS in a safety drive and to identify a catchy slogan that can be prominently displayed throughout the building, constantly reminding everyone of the need to be safety conscious. A $350 cash prize will be given to the winner. [READ MORE]
CeLS had experienced flooding at level 1 on three occasions whenever there was a heavy downpour. The Office of Estate Development has since addressed the situation by constructing a drain at the rear of the building to divert the rain water away from the building. We hope that this will prevent future flooding.
As part of BMRC’s continued efforts to improve on grant processes, they will be launching a new Principal Investigators (PIs) Portal under the Grant Administration and Management System (GAMS), on 1 April 2008. [READ MORE]
With effect from 1 April 2008, the Office of Life Sciences will be redesignated as the NUS Life Sciences Institute (LSI) .
With the streamlining of the function, LSI will now focus on continually supporting research in the life sciences as well as looking into setting new directions and programmes. One major change arising from this is that the administrative function of grants co-ordination will be transferred to the Deputy President (Research & Technology) Office, possibly from July 2008. In the interim, we will continue to coordinate both the BMRC and NMRC May grant calls.
Please note that with the change to LSI, its programmes/joint appointments/initiatives need to be in line with the existing Research Institutes /Research Centres practices. All staff who are currently employed under these Programmes will be officially transferred to LSI “711”, the new department code.
We look forward to working closely with the various Programmes as we enter into a new chapter.
Cancer Registry Training Course
The Principles of Oncology course for Cancer Registry Professionals was held in CELS from 10 to 14 March. This 5 day intensive training program focused on the collection of accurate and standardized clinical data from cancer patients, was the first of its kind to be held in Singapore. [READ MORE]
Grantsmanship Workshop 2008
OLS, NMRC and BMRC jointly organised the Grantsmanship Workshop on Wednesday, 12 March 2008 at the CeLS Auditorium. The one day workshop was attended by about 100 young scientists, researchers from the NUS community and RIs and also clinicians from hospitals. Six speakers shared their invaluable knowledge and experiences on how to write good research proposals. The event was well received by participants.
Prof Matsudaira, the first speaker
for the workshop.
For those who had missed the workshop, the proceedings and presentation slides are available on the internet at this link: http://www.lsi.nus.edu.sg/wordpress/?page_id=30.
2nd Lipid Symposium 2008
The 2nd Singapore Lipid Symposium held from 5-7 March 2008 (CeLS), was hosted by the Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Assoc Prof Markus Wenk PI with the Neurobiology Program played a key role in organizing this event. It was attended by about 120 registered participants. [READ MORE]
OLS Distinguished Lecture Series
Prof Chakraborty delivering his lecture.
