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SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre (AMC) researchers win national research awards

Our heartiest congratulations to our AMC’s latest winners of the National Medical Research Council (NMRC) awards, fellowships and scholarships. 67 winners were recognised at the NMRC awards ceremony earlier today.

Under the Nov 2020 grant call, seven of our clinician scientists and researchers won Clinician Scientist Awards. These awards are presented to talented clinician scientists and researchers who do internationally-competitive and cutting edge translational and clinical research.

In addition, twelve budding clinician scientists received the Transition Award, Clinician Innovator Development Awards and NMRC Research Training Fellowships. Collectively, these awards and programmes push the boundaries of medicine and improve patient care for Singapore and beyond.

The NMRC 2020 grant call award winners as follows:

CLINICIAN SCIENTIST AWARD – SENIOR INVESTIGATOR (CSA-SI)
Assoc Prof Chan Ling Ling SGH, Duke-NUS		Prof Tazeen Jafar Duke-NUS, SGH
CLINICIAN SCIENTIST AWARD – INVESTIGATOR (CSI-INV)
Dr Chao Yinxia NNI, Duke-NUS Assoc Prof Daniel Ting SingHealth, SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS Assoc Prof Melvin Chua NCCS, Duke-NUS		Dr Tan York Kiat SGH, Duke-NUS Asst Prof Yu Na NDCS, Duke-NUS
TRANSITION AWARDS (TA)
Dr Rachel Chong Shujuan SNEC, Duke-NUS Dr Tay Kae Jack SGH, Duke-NUS		Dr Yeo Tianrong NNI, Duke-NUS Asst Prof Valerie Yang NCCS, Duke-NUS
CLINICIAN INNOVATOR DEVELOPMENT AWARDS
Dr Luke Low Sher Guan SKH, BVH
NMRC RESEARCH TRAINING FELLOWSHIP
Dr Arun Kumar Narayanaswamy SNEC Dr Chua Ser Kenon SGH, Duke-NUS Dr Judith Wong Ju-Ming KKH, Duke-NUS Dr Frederick Koh Hong Xiang SKH, Duke-NUS		Dr Ku Chee Wai SingHealth, Duke-NUS Dr Ng Kok Pin NNI, Duke-NUS Dr Stephanie Saw NCCS, Duke-NUS

Nov 2018 - Nov 2019 NMRC grant cycle winners were also recognised today at the NMRC Awards Ceremony. 

Please join us in congratulating all our winners and their teams for their commendable research efforts!