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Award Year

National Medical Research Council Awards 2020

Singapore Translational Research Investigator Award (STaR)
- Professor Aung Tin, SNEC, SERI, DUKE-NUS
- Professor Salvatore Albani, SingHealth, KKH, Duke-NUS
- Professor Teh Bin Tean, NCCS, Duke-NUS

Clinician Scientist Award - Senior Investigator (CSA-SI)
- Professor Carolyn Lam, NHCS, Duke-NUS
- Professor Jodhbir Mehta, SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS
- Professor Koh Woon Puay, Duke-NUS
- Professor Narayanan Gopalakrishna Iyer, NCCS, Duke-NUS
- Professor Paul Michael Yen, Duke-NUS

Clinician Scientist Awards – Investigator (CSA-INV)
- Assistant Professor Andrea Low, SGH, Duke-NUS
- Assistant Professor Anita Chan, SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS
- Clinical Associate Professor Daniel Tan, NCCS, Duke-NUS
- Assistant Professor Danny Cheung, SNEC, Duke-NUS
- Clinical Associate Professor Derrick Chan, KKH, Duke-NUS
- Associate Professor Jenny Low, SGH, Duke-NUS
- Associate Professor Lim Chwee Ming, SGH, Duke-NUS
- Assistant Professor Monisha Esther Nongpiur
- Associate Professor Nagaendran Kandiah, NNI, Duke-NUS
- Assistant Professor Nicole Keong, NNI, Duke-NUS
- Assistant Professor Wan-Yee Teo, KKH, NCCS, Duke-NUS
- Associate Professor  Yap Yoon Sim, NCCS, Duke-NUS

Transition Awards (TA)
- Assistant Professor Grace Yang, NCCS, Duke-NUS
- Assistant Professor Jacqueline Chua, SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS
- Assistant Professor Lee Jan Hau, KKH, Duke-NUS
- Assistant Professor Ryan Man, SNEC, Duke-NUS
- Assistant Professor Shirin Kalimuddin, SGH, Duke-NUS
- Assistant Professor Kelvin Teo, SNEC, Duke-NUS
- Assistant Professor Tham Yih Chung, SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS

Clinician Innovator Development Awards
- Associate Professor Ng Wai Hoe, CGH, NNI, Duke-NUS

November 2020

National Medical Excellence Awards 2020

National Outstanding Clinical Quality Champion Award
Dr Chow Mun Hong
Vice-Chair, Strategy & Innovation, SingHealth Duke-NUS Family Medicine Academic Clinical Programme
Director, Quality Management, SHP
Chief Risk Officer, SHP

National Clinical Excellence Team Award
Clinical Assistant Professor Chua Mei Chien
Clinical Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School
Head and Senior Consultant, Special Care Nursery and Department of Neonatology, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital
Director, KK Human Milk Bank, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University
Clinical Senior Lecturer, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore

Dr Agarwal Pooja Jayagobi
Clinical Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School
Consultant, Department of Neonatology, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital
Clinical Teacher, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University             

 October 2020

Young Investigator Award
Dr Matae Ahn
Research Fellow, Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) programme

William Harvey Medal
Dr Matae Ahn
Research Fellow, Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) programme

September 2019

National Medical Excellence Awards 2019Open in new tab

National Outstanding Clinician Mentor Award

Prof London Lucien Ooi
Associate Dean, Admissions, Recruitment & Financial Aid, Duke-NUS Medical School
Professor, SingHealth-Duke-NUS Surgery Academic Clinical Programme
Senior Consultant, Hepato-pancreato-biliary and Transplant Surgery, Singapore General Hospital

National Outstanding Clinician Award
Assoc Prof Chua Yeow Leng
Adjunct Associate Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School
Group Director, International Collaboration Office, SingHealth
Senior Consultant, Cardiothoracic Surgery, National Heart Centre Singapore

National Clinical Excellence Team Award
Asst Prof Gavin Tan
Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School
Assistant Professor, SingHealth Duke-NUS Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Programme
Senior Consultant, Surgical Retina Department, Singapore National Eye Centre
Senior Consultant, Cataract & Comprehensive Ophthalmology Department, Singapore National Eye Centre
Clinical Director, Ocular Reading Centre (SORC) , Singapore National Eye Centre
Clinical Director, SIDRP/Polyclinic, Singapore National Eye Centre
Co-Head, Ocular Imaging Department, Singapore National Eye Centre
Senior Consultant, SNEC Eye Clinic @ CGH, Changi General Hospital

Assoc Prof Colin Tan
Associate Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School
Head of Fundus Image Reading Center, Deputy Head of Vitreoretina and Head of Research, NHG Eye Institute
Senior Consultant and Clinician-Researcher, Department of Ophthalmology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital

September 2019

National Medical Research Council Awards 2019

Open Fund – Large Collaborative Grant (OF-LCG)
- Team headed by Professor Tan Eng King from NNI, Duke-NUS received S$25 million grant for the Singapore PARKinsons’s disease Translational Clinical Programme (SPARK, Phase II)
- Team led by Professor Lim Soon Thye from NCCS, Duke-NUS secured S$10 million grant for the Singapore lYMPHoma translatiONal studY (SYMPHONY)

Clinician Scientist Awards – Senior Investigator (CSA-SI)
- Professor Ooi Eng Eong, Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme
- Associate Professor Ong Sin Tiong, Cancer & Stem Cell Biology Programme

Clinician Scientist Awards – Investigator (CSA-INV)
- Assistant Professor Melvin Chua, NCCS, Duke-NUS
- Assistant Professor Iain Tan, NCCS, Duke-NUS
- Assistant Professor Calvin Chin, NHCS, Duke-NUS
- Associate Professor Andrea Kwa, SGH, Duke-NUS
- Assistant Professor Donny Hoang, SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS
- Assistant Professor Angela Koh, NHCS, Duke-NUS

Transition Awards (TA)
- Assistant Professor Dawn Chong, NCCS, Duke-NUS
- Assistant Professor Tiffany Tang, NCCS, Duke-NUS
- Assistant Professor Tan Hong Chang, SGH, Duke-NUS
- Assistant Professor Shweta Singhal, SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS
- Dr Pua Yong Hao, SGH
- Dr Adeline Ng, NNI, Duke-NUS

April 2019

 Reimagine Education Conference & AwardsOpen in new tab

“Applying an Instructor’s Point of View Filming for a Flipped Pre-Laboratory” 
NUS Chemistry and NUS Institute for Application of Learning Science and Educational Technology (ALSET)
- Bronze (Presence Teaching and Learning)
- Bronze (Life Science & Medicine Discipline category)

Virtual Interactive Human Anatomy (VIHA)
NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS Medicine) Associate Professor Suresh Pillai
- Gold (Asia Regional category)

CognaLearn
- Bronze (Hybrid Learning category)

Asia-Pacific Excellence Awards 2018Open in new tab

"Science in the Hospital"
SingHealth Duke-NUS Joint Research Comms team - Winner (Science & Education category)

December 2018

Highly Cited Researchers 2018Open in new tab

World Chinese Economic Forum Outstanding Lifetime Achievement AwardOpen in new tab

Dr Noeleen Heyzer

November 2018

Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS) 2018 Founder’s AwardOpen in new tab

Prof John Lim

October 2018 

National Outstanding Clinician Scientist (CS) Resident AwardOpen in new tab

Ku Chee Wai
James Mok

President’s Science & Technology Awards 2018Open in new tab

Prof Stuart Cook
- Winner (President's Technology Award category)

Professor Tan Eng King, Duke-NUS
Professor Ng Huck Hui, A*STAR
Associate Professor Lim Kah Leong, Duke-NUS
Associate Professor Louis Tan, Duke-NUS

- Winner (President's Science Award (TEAM) category)

September 2018 

2018 APEC Science Prize for InnovationOpen in new tab

Dr Daniel Shu Wei Ting
- Singapore Finalis

 July 2018