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2022: A Year in Review


This year, we officially marked the beginning of Phase IV of the Duke-NUS partnership as we celebrated this milestone at a special event graced by Minister for Education, Mr Chan Chun Sing and Minister for Health, Mr Ong Ye Kung. Our clinician-scientists and researchers continued to make an impact with their scientific discoveries, while new components were introduced to our MD curriculum, including a module on social prescribing as well as the launch of the new Health Innovator Programme. We also inducted our second cohort of master academic clinicians and welcomed the Academic Medicine Advisory Council (AMAC) for the fifth AMAC meeting.

Now, here's a look back at other major milestones we have accomplished in 2022!

SingHealth Duke-NUS Research Team Award 2021

SingHealth Duke-NUS Research Team Awards 2021
Jan 2022 The SingHealth Duke-NUS Research Team Award is an annual award that aims to recognise and celebrate outstanding and invaluable contributions by research teams to the biomedical research landscape in the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre.
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Master Academic
Clinicians

Master Academic Clinicians (MAC) 2022
Feb 2022 Eight exceptional clinicians were inducted into Duke-NUS Medical School’s prestigious Hall of Master Academic Clinicians. At the same ceremony, 30 senior clinical faculty members were also appointed or promoted to the ranks of associate or full professor.
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Asian Scientist Lab Tech of the Year 2021 

Kamini Kunasegaran receives Asian Scientist Lab Tech of the Year 2021 MiRXES COVID-19 Hero Award
Mar 2022 Ms Kamini Kunasegaran, research assistant from the Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme, receives the Asian Scientist Lab Tech of the Year 2021 MiRXES COVID-19 Hero Award in recognition of her excellent work in support of Singapore’s fight against the pandemic as part of Professor Antonio Bertoletti’s lab.
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Champathon
Virtual Run

Duke-NUS Champathon
Mar 2022 In an inspiring show of support for students in financial need, 2,850 participants from Duke-NUS, SingHealth and the general public clocked an impressive finish during the inaugural Champathon virtual run, covering 217,522km and raising over $75,000 for the Student Financial Aid Fund.
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Singapore's Best Employers
2022

2022 Singapore Best Employer
Apr 2022 Duke-NUS Medical School has been recognised among Singapore’s Top 200 Best Employers by Straits Times for the second consecutive year.
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Graduating the
Class of 2022

Class of 2022
May 2022 Duke-NUS celebrated the graduation of the Class of 2022, comprising 66 students. Graduates, their families and invited guests joined Guest-of-Honour Mr Chan Chun Sing, Minister for Education, to attend the ceremony in person.
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Launch of Centre for Outbreak Preparedness

Duke-NUS Centre for Outbreak Preparedness launched in Singapore to enhance regional capacity for future health threats
Jun 2022 Centre for Outbreak Preparedness will collaborate with key public sector partners and research institutions, as well as overseas partners such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Health Organization, to strengthen regional research capacity, cooperation and preparedness for future pandemic and public health threats.
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Duke-NUS pioneers conferred Honorary Citizen Awards

Singapore confers Honorary Citizen Award on Professors Ranga Krishnan and Duane Gubler
Jun 2022 Former Duke-NUS Dean Professor Ranga Krishnan and Duke-NUS Emeritus Professor Duane Gubler received the Honorary Citizen Award—Singapore’s top honour for foreigners—for their valuable contributions to the country.
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J&J Satellite Center for Global Health Discovery 

Duke-NUS, Johnson & Johnson join hands to advance dengue innovation through a new discovery centre
Jun 2022 Duke-NUS and Johnson & Johnson, the world’s largest healthcare company, today jointly launched a new J&J Satellite Center for Global Health Discovery that will drive new solutions to mitigate the threat posed by flaviviruses such as dengue and Zika.
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CASE Circle of Excellence Awards 2022

CASE Award for Inflammation story (spotlight)
Jun 2022 Dr Chua Li Min’s story titled "Inflammation – the fires that burn within" published in MEDICUS 2021 Issue 3 has won GOLD at the CASE Circle of Excellence Awards 2022. The results were announced online on 22 June 2022.
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International team won £30m as part of British Heart Foundation's Big Beat Challenge

Prof Stuart Cook
Jul 2022 Professor Stuart Cook, from Duke-NUS Medical School and the National Heart Centre Singapore, brings to winning team CureHeart his ground-breaking research in cardiovascular medicine, which has advanced understanding of the genetic basis of cardiomyopathy and cellular processes underlying myocardial disease.
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National Day Awards
2022

Congratulations to all SingHealth Duke-NUS award winners!
Aug 2022 Congratulations to our faculty and staff, as well as individuals from our Academic Medicine partner, SingHealth, who were recognised with some of Singapore’s top honours at the 2022 National Day Awards.
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Welcoming the
16th Cohort

Class of 2026
Aug 2022 Coming from diverse backgrounds, the Class of 2026 comprises 72 students who have fought hard for their dream to study medicine at the School, including nine who have come from Duke-NUS’ conditional admissions pathways.
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Nobel Prize Dialogue
Singapore 2022

Duke-NUS students part of the Nobel Prize Dialogue 2022
Sep 2022 Duke-NUS MD-PhD candidates, Mr Wharton Chan and Mr Jacky Zhao, join Nobel Prize laureates and global leaders to discuss the future of healthcare
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Launch of Health Innovator Programme

HIP launch
Sep 2022 The new Health Innovator Programme provides an immersive experience for third-year medical students who are teamed up with peers from the National University of Singapore’s engineering and business programmes, and mentored by clinicians and industry partners. The inaugural cohort comprises nine students split into three teams who will focus on innovations in women’s health.
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Partnership with
CoVBio

Duke-NUS Professor Wang Linfa (second from right) and his team from the School’s Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme
Sep 2022 Duke-NUS signed an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with Singapore start-up CoV Biotechnology (CoVBio) to develop broad-spectrum vaccines and therapeutic antibodies that could potentially protect the world’s population from future coronavirus pandemics.
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Exclusive IP licensing agreement with TIIM Healthcare

Duke-NUS grants TIIM Healthcare exclusive licence to commercialise technology for intelligently triaging sepsis patients using novel in hospital mortality risk measurements
Sep 2022 Duke-NUS grants TIIM Healthcare exclusive licence that will enable the latter to commercialise an innovative new technology designed to help hospital emergency care providers quickly and efficiently identify sepsis patients at higher risk of dying.
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Memorandum of Understanding with Ngee Ann Kongsi

MOU between NAK and Duke-NUS
Sep 2022 The Ngee Ann Kongsi signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Duke-NUS Medical School with a pledge of up to $1.5 million to advance understanding in the emerging field of the human microbiome and its impact on the brain.
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National Medical Excellence Awards 2022

NMEA 2022
Sep 2022 Clinical Professor Chan Choong Meng, Professor Marcus Ong and a team led by Duke-NUS Associate Professor Swapna Kamal Verma are among the five individual and team recipients from the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre (AMC) who were honoured at the ceremony.
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Celebrating CCSD mentees' achievements

Celebrating the achievements of the Centre for Clinician-Scientist Development (CCSD) mentees
Sep 2022 Centre for Clinician-Scientist Development (CCSD) celebrated the achievements of mentees who received the Ministry of Health’s National Medical Research Council (NMRC) Transition Award and first-time Clinician Scientist Award. The celebration was extended to all who had been successful, with a total of 18 NMRC awardees who were honoured at the event.
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Duke-NUS Phase IV
Agreement 

Duke and NUS sign the fourth phase agreement for Duke-NUS
Oct 2022 Duke University and the National University of Singapore (NUS) reaffirmed their commitment to Duke-NUS Medical School—Singapore’s flagship graduate-entry, research-focused medical school—by renewing their partnership agreement.
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The Academic Medicine Advisory Council Meeting 2022

AMAC dialogue
Nov 2022 The long awaited fifth Academic Medicine Advisory Council (AMAC) gathered in-person at the Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium for the bi-annual meeting, last held in 2018 due to COVID-19. With three new members joining the Council, the AMAC met to review the AMC’s progress, share best practices and insights.
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7th World One Health
Congress

Guest of Honour Mdm Halimah Yacob, President of the Republic of Singapore, striking a gong to mark the start of the 7th World One Health Congress
Nov 2022 Organised by the SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute, the seventh World One Health Congress kicked off with more than 2,500-strong in-person and virtual audience consisting of scientists, policymakers, physicians, veterinarians and environmental health researchers.
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12th APRU Population Ageing Virtual Conference

Keynote speakers and presenters at the 12th APRU Population Ageing Virtual Conference
Nov 2022 Co-hosted by Centre for Ageing Research & Education and Zhejiang University, the 12th Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Population Ageing Virtual Conference brought together more than 40 experts on ageing research, policy and practice for two days of discussions focussed on the most pressing ageing-related issues faced by populations and governments.
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The next chapter in Duke-NUS’ journey

Duke-NUS milestone celebration
Nov 2022 Following the signing of the fourth phase of the Duke-NUS partnership agreement in October, stakeholders of this research-intensive, graduate-entry medical school gathered to celebrate this latest milestone. The event was graced by Singapore’s Education Minister, Mr Chan Chun Sing, and Health Minister, Mr Ong Ye Kung, as Guests-of-Honour. They were joined by National University of Singapore President Professor Tan Eng Chye, members of the Duke-NUS Governing Board as well as distinguished guests from the Ministries of Education and Health, SingHealth and members of the Duke-NUS community.
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National Medical Research Council Awards 2022

NMRC Awards 2022
Dec 2022 Our heartiest congratulations to our SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre's latest winners of the NMRC awards, fellowships and scholarships.
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 To see what else happened in 2022, check out our press releases and news highlights!