EDUCATION
RESEARCH
The IBM degree is a research-intensive program which culminates with the defense of a dissertation and the publication of the student’s findings. Research is done under the direction of an approved faculty mentor, who serves as chair of the student’s dissertation committee and provides financial support for research activities.
Students will undergo the mentor selection process toward the end of their first semester of the program.
| Name | Research Topic | Lab | Contact | |
| David M. VIRSHUP Prof., Program Director) | Cancer Biology, Signal Transduction, protein phosphorylation, Wnt signaling | Duke-NUS | david.virshup@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6516-7881 |
| Patrick J CASEY (Prof., Senior Vice-Dean for Research) | G protein signal transduction impacting cancer cell proliferation and metastasis | Duke-NUS | patrick.casey@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6516-7251 |
| Alexandra PIETERSEN( Asst. Prof.) | Mammary stem cells and breast cancer, mouse models, flow cytometry | Duke-NUS/NCC | alexandra.pietersen@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6223-7241 |
| Caroline LEE (Assoc. Prof.) | Functional Genomics of Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Pharmaco‐genetics/genomics, Population Genetics, Polymorphisms | NCC | caroline.lee@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6516-3251 |
| Kanaga SABAPATHY (Assoc. Prof.) | Pathways regulating carcinogenesis and chemo-sensitivity (c-Jun/JNK and p53/p73), mouse models for cancer and cancer therapeutic agents | NCC | cmrksb@nccs.com.sg | 6436-8349 |
| Koji ITAHANA( Asst. Prof.) | ARF‐Mdm2‐p53 tumor suppressor pathway, apoptosis, cancer metabolism, targeting mitochondria for cancer therapy | Duke-NUS | koji.itahana@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6516-2554 |
| Mathijs VOORHOEVE ( Asst. Prof.) | Cancer Biology, tumor suppressors in the p53 pathway, oncogenic microRNAs, ultra-conserved noncoding RNAs | Duke-NUS | mathijs.voorhoeve@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6516-2503 |
| Mei WANG( Asst. Prof.) | Cancer Biology, experimental cancer therapeutics, protein prenylation and its impact on signaling, autophagy and cell death pathways | Duke-NUS | mei.wang@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6516- 8608 |
| Patrick TAN (Assoc. Prof.) | Stomach cancer, cancer genomics, translational medicine | Duke-NUS/GIS/NCC | gmstanp@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6516-1783 |
| Sang Hyun LEE( Asst. Prof.) | Cancer Biology, Mitotic checkpoint, chromosomal instability, aneuploidy, anti-mitotic therapy | Duke-NUS | sanghyun.lee@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6601-1406 |
| Shang LI( Asst. Prof.) | Telomerase regulation, cancer and aging | Duke-NUS | shang.li@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6601-1259 |
| Shazib PERVAIZ (Prof.) | Cell death and survival signaling. Redox regulation of cell fate, Bcl‐2 family and mitochondrial physiology, drug discovery | NUS | Shazib_Pervaiz@nuhs.edu.sg | 6516-6602 |
| Sin Tiong ONG (Assoc. Prof.) | Therapeutic targeting of cancer stem cells, mechanisms of drug resistance, haematologic malignancies | Duke-NUS | sintiong.ong@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6516- 7763 |
| Name | Research Topic | Lab | Contact | |
| Shirish SHENOLIKAR (Prof.) |
Protein phosphatases; transduction of signals by metabolic and environmental stress | Duke-NUS | shirish.shenolikar@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6516 2588 |
| Shigeki SUGII, (Asst. Prof.) |
Adipose stem and iPS cells; fat metabolism; diabetes; nuclear receptors; regenerative therapeutics | A*Star | shigekisugii@gmail.com | 6478 8763 |
| Scott A. SUMMERS, (Assoc. Prof.) |
Lipid metabolism and lipotoxicity; diabetes | Duke-NUS | scott.summers@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6516 8793 |
| Paul M. YEN (Assoc. Prof.) |
Thyroid function; nuclear hormone receptor; hepatic steatosis; PI3-kinase and cancer | Duke-NUS | paul.yen@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6516 7332 |
| Diabetes, lipid metabolism, regulation of energy homeostasis, membrane proteins | Duke-NUS | david.silver@duke-nus.edu.sg |
6601 2172 |
| Name | Research Topic | Lab | Contact | |
| Duane Gubler(Professor) | Dengue and other vector-borne disease epidemiology, surveillance, prevention and control; Pathogen discovery | Duke-NUS | duane.gubler@duke-nus.edu.sg | 65168397 |
| Ooi Eng Eong (Associate Professor) | Pathogenesis of dengue; the interactions of dengue immune complexes with monocytes | Duke-NUS | engeong.ooi@duke-nus.edu.sg | 65168594 |
| Subhash Vasudevan (Associate Professor) | Viral therapeutics, drug discovery, pathogenesis mechanism studies for dengue and other vector-borne viruses. | Duke-NUS | subhash.vasudevan@duke-nus.edu.sg | 65166718 |
| Veronika von Messling (Associate Professor) | Pathogenesis of respiratory viruses, host response assessment, animal models | Duke-NUS | veronika.vonmessling@duke-nus.edu.sg | 66011372 |
| Gavin J Smith (Associate Professor) | Ecology, evolution, population dynamics, molecular epidemiology, interspecies transmission of emerging infectious diseases | Duke-NUS | gavin.smith@duke-nus.edu.sg | 66011109 |
| Manoj Krishnan (Assistant Professor) | Cell biology of viral infection; antiviral innate immune mechanisms | Duke-NUS | manoj.krishnan@duke-nus.edu.sg | 65162666 |
| Lok Shee Mei (Assistant Professor) | Structural changes of dengue virus during infection. | Duke-NUS | sheemei.lok@duke-nus.edu.sg | 65165840 |
| Name | Research Topic | Lab | Contact | |
| David Matchar Prof, Program Director) |
Please see: http://www.duke-nus.edu.sg/web/research/faculty/matchar-david-bruce | Duke-NUS | david.matchar@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6516 2584 |
| Eric Finkelstein (Assoc. Prof, Deputy Director) |
Economic Incentives, Behavioral Economics, Obesity, Discrete Choice Analysis, Economic Evaluation, Burden of Illness analysis, Cost Effectiveness Analysis | Duke-NUS | eric.finkelstein@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6516 2338 |
| Angelique Chan (Assoc. Prof) |
Social demography, aging, disability, family support, psychological well-being of older adults. | Duke-NUS | socchana@nus.edu.sg | 6516 5027 |
| Truls Østbye (20% Duke-NUS, 80% Duke, Durham) (Prof.) |
Please see: http://www.duke-nus.edu.sg/web/research/faculty/ostbye-truls | Duke-NUS | truls.ostbye@duke.edu | +1 919 660 0331 |
| Young Kyung Do (Asst. Prof) |
Economic and health system impacts of population aging and chronic disease, Policy- and system-level disease management for chronic illnesses, Structural interventions to control risk factors, especially tobacco use and obesity; and Comparative health systems and international health issues, with a primary focus on Asia. | Duke-NUS | young.do@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6516 2790 |
| James Thompson (Senior Associate in Research) |
Health care system policy, strategy formulation, learning theory applied to dynamically complex problems | Duke-NUS | james.thompson@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6601 1362 |
| Name | Research Topic | Lab | Contact | |
| Dale Purves (Prof., Program Director) | Visual and auditory perception | Duke-NUS | dale.purves@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6516 4386 |
| George Augustine(Prof). | Optogenetic mapping of brain circuitry; synaptic transmission | Biopolis | georgea@neuro.duke.edu | 6407 0750 |
| Michael Chee(Prof) | Mechanisms underlying attention failure in sleep deprived persons; Decision making following sleep deprivation; Cognitive neuroscience of healthy aging | Duke-NUS | michael.chee@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6516 4916 |
| Marc Fivaz (Asst Prof) | Axon growth and regeneration, axonal transport, synapse assembly and plasticity | DUKE-NUS | Marc.fivaz@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6516 7748 |
| Eyleen Goh (Asst Prof) | Adult neurogenesis and regeneration of the adult CNS. Induced pluripotent stem cells for modeling and potential treatment for neurodevelopment and neurodegenerative diseases. | Duke-NUS | Eyleen.goh@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6516 6701 |
| Joshua Gooley(Asst Prof) | Chronobiology, human circadian rhythms, sleep deprivation | Duke-NUS | joshua.gooley@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6516 7430 |
| Po-Jang (Brown) Hsieh (Asst Prof) | Human cognition, attention, visual awareness, object perception and recognition, decision making, human brain mapping with fMRI and diffusion imaging | Duke-NUS | pojang.hsieh@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6601 2088 |
| Shawn Je (Asst Prof) | Developing circuit-based mouse models of neuropsychiatric diseases, including schizophrenia, autism, and depression. Understanding cell and molecular mechanisms underlying synaptic plasticity. | Duke-NUS | Shawn.je@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6601 1260 |
| Suresh Jesuthasan (Assoc Prof) | Pheromone-induced fear in zebrafish; neural circuits regulating anxiety. | NRP | suresh.jesuthasan@nrp.a-star.edu.sg | 6407 0390 |
| Tih-Shih Lee (Assoc Prof) | Brain-computer interface, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder. | Duke-NUS | tihshih.lee@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6516 7461 |
| Kah Leong Lim (Assoc. Prof) | Molecular Mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease | NRP | Kahleong.lim@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6516 5413 |
| Edward Manser (Prof) | Rho GTPase signaling in cell migration and neuronal differentiation | A-STAR | ed.manser@imb.a-star.edu.sg | 6586 9545 |
| Steve Rozen (Assoc Prof) | Human genetics (especially behavioral) and cancer genomics and the genetics of cancer progression; bioinformatics | Duke NUS | steve.rozen@duke-nus.edu.sg | 9857 3213 |
| Shirish Shenolikar(Prof and senior associate Dean for research) | Genetic and Pharmacological Targeting Translational Control Mechanisms to Protect Neurons against Huntinton's Disease and Other Neurodegenerative Disorders. | Duke-NUS | Shirish.Shenolikar@Duke-NUS.edu.sg | 6516 2588 |
| Eng King Tan (Assoc Prof) | Genetic epidemiology, pathophysiologic studies of diseased genes and experimental therapeutics in neurodegenerative diseases | Duke-NUS | gnrtek@sgh.com.sg | 6326 5003 |
| Antonius VanDongen (Assoc Prof) | Epigenetics and systems biology of learning and memory | DUKE-NUS | antonius.vandongen@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6516 7075 |
| Hongyan Wang (Asst Prof) | Neural stem cell self-renewal, asymmetric cell division, neuronal degeneration | Duke-NUS | hongyan.wang@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6516 7740 |
| Xiaodong Zhang (Asst Prof) | Serotonin-based neuropsychiatric disorders | Duke-NUS | xiaodong.zhang@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6516 8809 |
| Adam Claridge-Chang (Asst Prof) | Models of cognitive and emotional dysfunction in Drosophila melanogaster | A-STAR | adamcc@gmail.com | 6407 0720 |
| Helen Juan Zhou (Asst Prof) | Multimodal neuroimaging in neuropsychiatric disorders, development and aging, human brain functional and structural connectivity with fMRI/EEG/DTI, imaging biomarker development | Duke-NUS | helen.zhou@duke-nus.edu.sg | 6601 2392 |
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