The 2^nd Mechanobiology Workshop 2008 organised by the Mechanobiology Research Group in collaboration with the Life Sciences Institute, the Department of  Biological Sciences and the Bioengineering Division, NUS was a success. It was held at the Centre for Life Sciences Auditorium from 3 to 5 November 2008.

Attended by 220 participants from NUS, NTU and research institutes, it had 19 overseas and 17 local speakers who shared their scientific knowledge and expertise on the multidisciplinary fields of Cellular and Molecular Mechanics, Bioimaging, Modelling, Bioengineering and Tissue Engineering. [READ MORE]

The Crisis Management team carried out a Crisis Management table top exercise on Tuesday, 18 November 2008. The purpose of the exercise was to help identify new safety measures which could be put in place to improve the existing safety plans. Members of the team provided useful recommendations which were related to improving the notification procedures, communication of the plan to all CeLS occupants and developing a trained Emergency Response Team. [READ MORE]

Associate Professor Yao Shao Qin from the LSI Medicinal Chemistry programme has been appointed a member of the Editorial Board, for journal Future Medicinal Chemistry, UK (since 2008) and a member of the Faculty of 1000 Biology (under the Macromolecular Chemistry Section of the Chemical Biology Faculty), USA (since May 2008).

Our heartiest congratulations to Prof Barry Halliwell and Assoc Prof Toh Siew Lok.

Prof Barry Halliwell, Deputy President (Research and Technology), NUS, Leader of Neurobiology and Ageing programme, LSI, was awarded the “Lifetime Achievement Award” (2008) by the Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine, based in the USA.

Assoc Prof Toh Siew Lok, LSI Bioengineering programme, Division of Bioengineering, NUS, was awarded the Ministry of Community Development (MCYS) Volunteer Long Service Award 2008. This is in recognition of his untiring and selfless contributions and services as a volunteer with the Ministry.

We would like to congratulate Prof James Goh, Interim Programme Leader for the LSI Tissue Engineering Programme, on his recent promotion from a Research Staff to Research Professorship.