NMRC Grant Call Roadshow
The National Medical Research Council (NMRC) has given a series of roadshows in May 2007. One of the roadshows was held at Centre for Life Sciences (CeLS) Auditorium on 4 May 2007. Dr Edwin Low (Executive Director, NMRC) was the speaker at the roadshows and he gave an update on the changes to the grant framework and the Competitive Research Fund (NRF).
Proceedings of the talk can be viewed from the OLS website here.
OLS Distinguished Lecture Series
Two lectures were held in the month of May 2007. On 18 May, Prof Dimitrios Trichopoulos (Professor of Cancer Prevention and Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health) delivered a lecture on “Early Life Origins of Breast Cancer”.
Professor Jan-Eric Litton (Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden) delivered a lecture on “Federation of Life Science Data” on 29 May.
OLS Young Investigator Seminar Series Cum Networking Session
The OLS Young Investigator Seminar was held on Friday, 4 May 2007 from 4pm to 5pm at the CeLS Auditorium. The two speakers were Dr Ng Huck Hui (NUS YIA Winner 2002) from Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science and Dr Ricardo Rodolfo Lareu, from NUSSTEP, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.
Dr Ng Huck Hui & Dr Ricardo Lareu
The seminar was followed by a Networking Session.
Interaction Session with SICS
OLS organized an Interaction Session with 4 clinician-scientists from the Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS) on Thursday, 24 May 2007. The objective of the session was to interact and foster closer relations between staff from CeLS and SICS.
OLS Exco and SICS Clinicians at Neurobiology Lab
The programme started with an informal dialogue with the OLS Executive Committee (Exco). This was followed by a tour of the Neurobiology labs. OLS ExCo also visited the labs in Brenner Centre. The day’s programme ended with a tea reception at the CeLS foyer which was attended by OLS Exco, Programme Leaders and Principal Investigators.
National Research Foundation(NRF) Fellowship Scheme
OLS has been actively promoting the National Research Foundation Fellowship scheme both locally and internationally to seek out outstanding young scientists to do independent research in NUS. The NRF Fellowship aims to support talented postdoctoral fellows who are 35 years of age and below. It is opened to all nationalities and in all areas of science and technology. The successful applicants will be offered a generous start up grant of USD $1.5 million over 3 years at a university in Singapore. Outstanding Fellows may be offered tenured track or permanent positions at the appropriate academic departments in NUS.
A list of NRF Fellowship applicants in the area of life sciences has been circulated to all OLS Programme Leaders, relevant Vice Deans (Research) and Departmental Heads for shortlisting. OLS has also setup aninternal ad-hoc committee comprising Vice Deans (Research) and representatives from the Dentistry,Computing, Engineering, Medicine and Science to review the applicants. Shortlisted applicants will be invited for an interview at NUS in June 2007. They will also be given the opportunity to interact withrelevant staff from the various OLS Programmes and departments and to give a seminar during their visit.
Please disseminate this information to suitable candidates. More information on the scheme and forms canbe obtained from the ORE Website.
Fire Drill
A fire drill at CeLS was jointly conducted with SICS on 24 May 2007 and we are happy to note that there was 100% participation. We have noted that there were some hitches which will be rectified immediately. OLS is committed to safety in the CeLS building and we hope all CeLS occupants and users will participate in our efforts by giving us your feedback. Do not hesitate to contact Dr Viji Vijayan/Ms Poon Yoke Yin if you have any safety concerns and watch out for more safety news here in the future.
BMRC
The BMRC-NMRC joint call will close on 4 June 2007 and OLS is working closely with six Faculties/Schools(Medicine, Dentistry, Science, Engineering, Computing and Arts & Social Sciences), to coordinate the submission of the applications from NUS. OLS has also conducted internal reviews of several draft proposals submitted by Principal Investigators to help further improve their proposals. More information onthe grant call can be obtained from here.
NMRC
NMRC has announced the launch of the second grant call for the Translational and Clinical Research (TCR) Flagship Programme and Singapore Translational Research (STaR) InvestigatorshipAwards under the BMS initiative Phase II. Open to local public institutions in Singapore, this programmeseeks to integrate, coordinate and leverage on the full spectrum of research capabilities in Singapore frombasic science to clinical research in an “all-the-way” fashion. The proposed programme should draw on the best strengths from institutions across Singapore with the relevant expertise that will enhance the competitiveness of the programme.
For application to NMRC, the application forms can be downloaded from NMRC website.
The current application call with a submission deadline on 2 July 2007, 5 pm, will be open to proposals in
(i) neurosciences and
(ii) eye diseases.
OLS Distinguished Lecture Series
“Nanodrug Screening: Using Single Molecule Experiments to Control the Functional State of Transporters and GPCRs”
Prof Daniel Müller
Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Date: Thursday, 28 June 2007
Time: 4 pm
Venue: Multi Purpose Room, Centre for Life Sciences
Seminar by LAC
“Phenotypic Evaluation of Genetically-engineered Mice”
Dr Scott Trasti
President, Vet Med Ventures, Inc. &
Henderson Companion Animal Hospital
Date: Friday, 8 June 2007
Time: 3 pm
Venue:Auditorium, Centre for Life Sciences
Workshop on Developmental Biology with Weizmann Institute, Israel
OLS is planning a Workshop on Developmental Biology with the Weizmann Institute, Israel in early August 2007. The workshop will cover four model organisms in yeast, fruitfly, plants and zebrafish. The 11-member NUS team participating in this workshop will be led by OLS Director, Prof Hew Choy Leong. Otherteam members include colleagues from NUS, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory and Nanyang Technological University. We hope that this workshop will kindle bilateral research and collaboration between Singapore and Weizmann.
GEM4 Summer School 2007
The GEM4 organized Summer School on Cell & Molecular Mechanics in Biomedicine (with a focus on Cancer) is taking place at the Centre for Life Sciences, from 25 June to 6 July 2007. This is held in conjunction with the GEM4 Conference on Cancer at Suntec City from 1 July to 6 July 2007. Summer School participants will get to attend the plenary and keynote lectures for this conference.
Lim Chwee Teck
Ellice Lim
Siti Haryanti
OLS hosted two visits:
Dr Vladimir Aksyuk
Technical Manager, Bell Laboratories
on 8 May 2007
Professor Hans Hilgenkamp
University of Twente
on 22 May 2007
Interaction Session with SICS
OLS organized an Interaction Session with 4 clinician-scientists from the Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS) on Thursday, 24 May 2007. The objective of the session was to interact and foster closer relations between staff from CeLS and SICS.
OLS Exco and SICS Clinicians at Neurobiology Lab
The programme started with an informal dialogue with the OLS Executive Committee (Exco). This was followed by a tour of the Neurobiology labs. OLS ExCo also visited the labs in Brenner Centre. The day’s programme ended with a tea reception at the CeLS foyer which was attended by OLS Exco, Programme Leaders and Principal Investigators.
OLS Young Investigator Seminar Series Cum Networking Session
The OLS Young Investigator Seminar was held on Friday, 4 May 2007 from 4pm to 5pm at the CeLS Auditorium. The two speakers were Dr Ng Huck Hui (NUS YIA Winner 2002) from Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science and Dr Ricardo Rodolfo Lareu, from NUSSTEP, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.
Dr Ng Huck Hui & Dr Ricardo Lareu
The seminar was followed by a Networking Session.
OLS Distinguished Lecture Series
Two lectures were held in the month of May 2007. On 18 May, Prof Dimitrios Trichopoulos (Professor of Cancer Prevention and Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health) delivered a lecture on “Early Life Origins of Breast Cancer”.
Professor Jan-Eric Litton (Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden) delivered a lecture on “Federation of Life Science Data” on 29 May.
NMRC Grant Call Roadshow
The National Medical Research Council (NMRC) has given a series of roadshows in May 2007. One of the roadshows was held at Centre for Life Sciences (CeLS) Auditorium on 4 May 2007. Dr Edwin Low (Executive Director, NMRC) was the speaker at the roadshows and he gave an update on the changes to the grant framework and the Competitive Research Fund (NRF).
Proceedings of the talk can be viewed from the OLS website here.