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A/Prof Prof Soong Tuck Wah with the Neurobiology Programme has published a paper in the journal Molecular Pharmacology entitled “Activation of corticotropin releasing factor receptor 1 selectively inhibits CaV3.2 T type calcium channels.” |
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Dr Tong Yen Wah, Assistant Professor with the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the Division of Bioengineering has received a US$100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. |
The grant will support his innovative global health research project, entitled “Molecularly imprinted polymeric nanoparticles to capture viruses in treating infectious diseases – A synthetic antibody”. [READ MORE]
The Roundtable Discussion on Genomics and Population Health was held from 17 to 20 October 2008 at the Vista, University Hall, NUS.
It was organised by the Life Sciences Institute Centre for Molecular Epidemiology (CME), National University of Singapore, Scripps Genomic Medicine Program, San Diego, California, USA and Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit, University of Otago, New Zealand. [READ MORE]
A/Prof Ong (extreme left) with the Polish Media.
Life Sciences Institute hosted a visit for the Polish Media on 16 October 2008. They were: Ms Joanna Zimakowska (Editor, Swiat Nauki), Mr Andrzej Gorzym (Science Section, Polityka) and Ms Dorota Romanowska (Science Section, Newsweek Polska).
A/Prof Ong Wei Yi led the delegates for a tour of the Neurobiology Labs, followed by lunch hosted by LSI Deputy Director, A/Prof Low Boon Chuan.
The Cancer Research Centre of Excellence (RCE) was officially opened on Wednesday 15 October 2008 by the Guest-of-Honour Mrs Tan Ching Yee, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education.
The Cancer RCE aims to take an integrated approach in studying cancers which are endemic to Asian population, such as colorectal cancer, breast cancer and leukaemia. It will fast-track cancer research transforming basic science into treatments for patients. [READ MORE]
LSI Young Investigator Seminar Series
A/Prof Wenk delivering his talk.
An LSI Young Investigator Seminar was held on 16 October 2008 at the CeLS Auditorium. The speaker was A/Prof Markus Wenk (LSI Neurobiology/Ageing Programme and Assistant Head of Department of Biochemistry, NUS). He delivered a talk on “Lipidomics, Novel Tools and Applications”.
LSI Distinguished Lecture Series
in October:
The month of October 2008 saw four lectures being held at the CeLS Auditorium.
On 17 October, Dr John D Potter (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, School of Public Health & Community Medicine, USA) delivered a lecture on “Beyond Bench to Bedside”.
Deep in conversation: Prof John
Potter (left) and Dr Liu Jianjun (right).
Professor John P.A. Ioannidis (Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Greece) spoke on “Integrating Genomics into Population Health: Promises and Pitfalls” on 20 October. Both lectures above were hosted by Professor Chia Kee Seng (LSI Molecular Epidemiology Programme Leader; Director, NUS-GIS Centre for Molecular Epidemiology and Professor, Dept of Community, Occupational and Family Medicine, NUS).
Prof Ioannidis (left) in post-LSI
Lecture chat with Prof Peter Little
(right), Research Director, Office of
DPRT, NUS.
Professor Benny Geiger (Professor & Dean, Faculty of Biology, Department of Molecular Cell Biology Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) gave a lecture titled “Environmental Signaling Via the Integrin Adhesome”. The lecture, held on 22 October, was hosted by Prof Michael Sheetz (Head, Mechanobiology Research Group & Distinguished Visiting Professor, Dept of Biological Sciences, NUS)
Another lecture titled “Neurotechnology and Epilepsy” was delivered by Professor Steven Craig Schachter (Harvard Medical School) on 23 October. Prof Ong Choon Nam (Director, Life Sciences Institute) hosted the lecture.
LSI Young Investigator Seminar
“Novel optical imaging methods for in vivo imaging of biological tissue”
Dr Chen Nanguang
Assistant Professor
Division of Bioengineering, NUS
”A novel aspect of the phosphorylation regulation mechanism”
Dr Liou Yih-Cherng
Assistant Professor
Dept of Biological Sciences, NUS
Date : Thursday, 20 November 2008
Time : 4pm – 5pm
Venue: CeLS Seminar Room 2
LSI Distinguished Lecture Series
“Perestroika in Pharma: Evolution or Revolution in Drug Development?”
Dr Garret A. FitzGerald
Director, Institute for Translational Medicine & Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Date : Monday, 10 November 2008
Time : 4pm – 5pm
Venue: CeLS Auditorium
“Mechanotransduction in Co-cultured Endothelial – Smooth Muscle Cells”
Prof Shu Chien
Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitor
Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine
Director, Whitaker Institute of Biomedical Engineering
University of California at San Diego, USA
Date : Monday, 24 November 2008
Time : 4pm – 5pm
Venue: CeLS Auditorium
Seminars by Immunology Programme
“Using Genomics to Reveal Biology in Multiple Myeloma”
Dr Chng Wee Joo
National University Hospital
Date : Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Time : 11am – 12pm
Venue: CeLS Auditorium
“Hemopoietic Processes in the Development and Maintenance of Atopy and Allergic Inflammation”
Dr Judah A. Denburg
Faculty of Health Sciences
McMaster University, Australia
Date : Friday, 21 November 2008
Time : 11am – 12pm
Venue: CeLS Auditorium
Lim Chwee Teck
Sumita Anant
Ellice Lim
Siti Haryanti
Aziz Salim
LSI Distinguished Lecture Series
in October:
The month of October 2008 saw four lectures being held at the CeLS Auditorium.
On 17 October, Dr John D Potter (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, School of Public Health & Community Medicine, USA) delivered a lecture on “Beyond Bench to Bedside”.
Deep in conversation: Prof John
Potter (left) and Dr Liu Jianjun (right).
Professor John P.A. Ioannidis (Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Greece) spoke on “Integrating Genomics into Population Health: Promises and Pitfalls” on 20 October. Both lectures above were hosted by Professor Chia Kee Seng (LSI Molecular Epidemiology Programme Leader; Director, NUS-GIS Centre for Molecular Epidemiology and Professor, Dept of Community, Occupational and Family Medicine, NUS).
Prof Ioannidis (left) in post-LSI
Lecture chat with Prof Peter Little
(right), Research Director, Office of
DPRT, NUS.
Professor Benny Geiger (Professor & Dean, Faculty of Biology, Department of Molecular Cell Biology Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) gave a lecture titled “Environmental Signaling Via the Integrin Adhesome”. The lecture, held on 22 October, was hosted by Prof Michael Sheetz (Head, Mechanobiology Research Group & Distinguished Visiting Professor, Dept of Biological Sciences, NUS)
Another lecture titled “Neurotechnology and Epilepsy” was delivered by Professor Steven Craig Schachter (Harvard Medical School) on 23 October. Prof Ong Choon Nam (Director, Life Sciences Institute) hosted the lecture.
LSI Young Investigator Seminar Series
A/Prof Wenk delivering his talk.
An LSI Young Investigator Seminar was held on 16 October 2008 at the CeLS Auditorium. The speaker was A/Prof Markus Wenk (LSI Neurobiology/Ageing Programme and Assistant Head of Department of Biochemistry, NUS). He delivered a talk on “Lipidomics, Novel Tools and Applications”.
