EDUCATION
The Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) comprises five internationally renowned scientists who advise the Governing Board on the initiation and direction of research projects and programs undertaken by the School.
Dr. Agre is Distinguished Senior Scientific Advisor at the Duke University School of Medicine and University Professor and Director of Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. He received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for deciphering the molecular basis for the movement of water into and out of cells. His discovery of the class of molecules that performs this function, the aquaporins, ushered in a new era in the study of the molecular and cellular aspects of membrane channels and in kidney function.
Dr. Campbell is the Roy J. Carver Biomedical Research Chair, Professor and Head of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics and Professor of Internal Medicine and Neurology at the University of lowa as well as Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is an expert in the area of degenerative disorders of the muscle and has been elected to both the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences in the U.S. Dr. Campbell received the 2009 March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology for his work identifying genetic and molecular causes of muscular dystrophies.
Dr. Cory is Professor of Molecular Oncology at the University of Melbourne and was Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research from 1996 until 2009. An expert in the molecular genetics of cancer, Dr. Cory is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and a Fellow of The Royal Society as well as a Foreign Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a Foreign Associate of the French Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey is President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the United States’ largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and healthcare. Prior to joining the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in April 2001, Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey was the Sylvan Eisman Professor of Medicine and Health Care Systems and Director of the Institute on Aging at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, testifies before Congress frequently and serves on several corporate and non-profit boards.
Sir Peters is the Emeritus Professor of Physic at the University of Cambridge, where he was the Head of the School of Clinical Medicine. He is currently a Senior Consultant to GSK, Chairman of GMEC (Global Medical Excellence Cluster), of the Cambridge Management Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Center, and the Council of the University of Cardiff. His research interests center on the immunology of renal and vascular disease, and in particular on how delineation of immunological mechanisms can lead to new therapies of these disorders.
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