Prestige Singapore named Dr Eugenia Ong, a then-senior research fellow both with Duke-NUS’ Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme and the Viral Research and Experimental Medicine Centre at SingHealth Duke-NUS (ViREMiCS), among its list of Singapore’s most successful, innovative and influential young people.
Ong made the 2020 list for her role in leading the development of novel molecular tests that shortened the bench-to-bedside timeline for vaccines and drugs against infectious diseases such as COVID-19, as well as for helping ViREMiCS attain ISO 15189 (Medical Testing) accreditation in 2019.