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Duke-NUS and SingHealth clinician scientists recognised with top talent awards

Twenty-seven clinician scientists and researchers from the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre (AMC) have been recognised with top National Medical Research Council (NMRC) talent development awards.

Among the winners are Professors Teh Bin Tean, Aung Tin and Salvatore Albani, who won Singapore Translational Research (STaR) Investigator Awards. The STaR Award is a prestigious award designed to nurture established world-class clinician investigators who undertake cutting-edge translational and clinical research.

Five leading clinician scientists—Professors Koh Woon Puay and Paul Yen from Duke-NUS, and Narayanan Gopalakrishna Iyer, Carolyn Lam and Jodhbir Mehta from across the AMC—clinched Clinician Scientist – Senior Investigator Awards. These grants are awarded to clinician scientists who have been highly productive and demonstrated strong leadership in translational and clinical research.

Maintaining a strong pipeline of future talent, 12 clinician scientists who have a strong research track record and demonstrated leadership skills have been recognised with Clinician Scientist – Investigator Awards, while a further seven budding clinician scientists received Transition Awards to further support their ambitions in research.

Associate Professor Ng Wai Hoe, meanwhile, won a Clinician Innovator Award. This award supports clinicians with potential medical innovation ideas. It is designed to enable clinicians to generate pilot data and bring their ideas to the next level.

“COVID-19 may have done away with the physical awards ceremony this year, but that does not undermine the outstanding achievements of our clinician scientists and researchers who have clinched these national awards for research spanning various fields,” noted the joint research leadership from Duke-NUS and SingHealth.

SINGAPORE TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH INVESTIGATOR AWARD (STaR)
Prof Aung Tin SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS	Prof Salvatore Albani SingHealth, KKH, Duke-NUS		Prof Teh Bin Tean NCCS, Duke-NUS
CLINICIAN SCIENTIST AWARD – SENIOR INVESTIGATOR (CSA-SI)
Prof Carolyn Lam NHCS, Duke-NUS Prof Jodhbir Mehta SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS Prof Koh Woon Puay Duke-NUS		Prof Narayanan Gopalakrishna Iyer NCCS, Duke-NUS Prof Paul Michael Yen Duke-NUS
CLINICIAN SCIENTIST AWARD – INVESTIGATOR (CSI-INV)
Assoc Prof Andrea Low Hsiu Ling SGH, Duke-NUS Asst Prof Anita Chan SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS Clin Assoc Prof Daniel Tan NCCS, Duke-NUS Asst Prof Danny Cheung SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS Clin Assoc Prof Derrick Chan KKH, Duke-NUS Assoc Prof Jenny Low SGH, Duke-NUS		Assoc Prof Lim Chwee Ming SGH, Duke-NUS Asst Prof Monisha Esther Nongpiur SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS Assoc Prof Nagaendran Kandiah NNI, Duke-NUS Asst Prof Nicole Keong NNI, Duke-NUS Asst Prof Wan-Yee Teo KKH, NCCS, Duke-NUS Assoc Prof Yap Yoon Sim NCCS, Duke-NUS
TRANSITION AWARDS (TA)
Asst Prof Grace Yang Meijuan NCCS, Duke-NUS Asst Prof Jacqueline Chua SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS Adj Asst Prof Lee Jan Hau KKH, Duke-NUS Asst Prof Ryan Eyn Kidd Man SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS		Asst Prof Shirin Kalimuddin SGH, Duke-NUS Asst Prof Teo Yi Chong Kelvin SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS Asst Prof Tham Yih Chung SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS
CLINICIAN INNOVATOR DEVELOPMENT AWARDS
Assoc Prof Ng Wai Hoe CGH, NNI, Duke-NUS

(NMRC awards from Nov 2018 – Nov 2019 grant call cycles)