Prof Chua received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 1990.  He joined the National University of Singapore (NUS) as a Lecturer in 1990 and is now a Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. 

From 1995 to 2000, he was on secondment to the Centre for Wireless Communications (now part of the Institute for Infocomm Research) a national telecommunication R&D centre funded by the Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research as its Deputy Director.  [READ MORE]

The year of the Ox kicked off with a party held at the Centre for Life Sciences on Friday, 6 February 2009. Some 270 staff from the LSI Programmes, NGS, SMART, IACUC and LAC joined in the festive lunar new year celebration.

The party began with welcome remarks by Prof Ong Choon Nam, Director, LSI. The traditional tossing of the Yu Sheng was led by outgoing LSI Exco member Prof Hew Choy Leong following which staff were treated to a buffet spread.

Ms Nikol Adrianne Tschaepe, Facility Manager with the Laboratory Animals Centre won the Best Dressed Award. She was elegantly dressed in black cheongsam and silk jacket. Miss Adeline Chow Wai Lyn from the Neurobiology Programme walked away with the first prize of the lucky draw.

Dr. Qiu Anqi and her group from the LSI Bioengineering Programme developed a sophisticated image analysis technology, large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping, to quantify brain shape using magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. Childhood psychiatric disorders and age associated neurodegenerative diseases have important implications because of their possible effects on normal development and function of the brain.

Recently, the research group and their collaborators applied this technology to the MR study of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). ADHD is a prevalent neuropsychiatric syndrome characterized by excessive difficulty caused due to inattentiveness and/or hyperactive-impulsive behaviour. [READ MORE]

LSI congratulates the Mechanobiology Research Group which comprises members from the Faculties of Science and Engineering and LSI on being awarded a grant to set up the new Research Centre of Excellence (RCE) on Mechanobiology at NUS.

The new RCE will receive a funding of $150 million over a 10 year period from the National Research Foundation and the Ministry of Education.

The RCE’s research focus will be on new ways of studying diseases through the mechanisms of cell and tissue mechanics. This is the third RCE to be set up at NUS, the first being the Centre for Quantum Technologies and the second the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore. [READ MORE]

Spill carts: New fully stocked spill carts have been provided to each programme. The carts include personal protective equipment and spill clean-up material. Please familiarize yourselves with the contents of the spill cart stationed in your laboratory, pictures and locations of the carts are put up on the safety notice boards and available on the LSI website. http://www.lsi.nus.edu.sg/08/corporate/safety/
Emergency_Spill_Kit@CeLS.pdf

ASHPA audit: An audit to verify the documents submitted for the Annual Safety and Health Performance Award was conducted by OSHE and an external auditor on Friday, 27 Feb. Thanks to everyone at CeLS for your continuous efforts in improving safety practices in your laboratories.