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Dr Charles Chuah is currently a Senior Consultant at the Department of Haematology, Singapore General Hospital (SGH), Assistant Professor at the Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Program, Duke-NUS Medical School and Clinical Senior Lecturer, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He holds administrative appointments as Director, Department of Clinical Translational Research, SGH; Director, Early Career Development and Translational Research, SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Clinical Program for Medicine; Director, Research, SingHealth Duke-NUS Blood Cancer Centre; and Director, Molecular Laboratory and Myeloproliferative Disorders/Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Program, Department of Haematology, SGH.
Dr Chuah has a strong and active interest in clinical and translational research in chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML). His research interests include mechanisms of resistance and targeted therapy in CML. In the past eleven years, he has been awarded four national grants and five institutional grants with a total funding of S$2.8 million. He was also awarded the National Medical Research Council Clinician Scientist Award in 2007 and 2010. Dr Chuah is a principal investigator in twenty multi-centre clinical trials.
Dr Chuah has authored or co-authored over forty publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals including Nature, Nature Medicine, Nature Genetics, New England Journal of Medicine, Cancer Cell, PNAS, Blood, Leukemia and Journal of Clinical Oncology. He has been a member of the Scientific Review Panel of the NMRC since 2007. He was the Co-chair for the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (Asia) Consensus Statement Panel for CML in 2008.
Dr Chuah in the editorial board for Annals Academy of Medicine, Singapore and is a reviewer for the Singapore Medical Journal, Cancer Letters, International Journal of Hematology, Leukemia and Leukemia Research.
Education
Doctor of Medicine
University of London, United Kingdom
Member, Royal Coll of Physicians
National University of Singapore, United Kingdom
Master of Medicine (Internal Medicine)
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
NUS Appointment(s)
Clinical Senior Lecturer
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore,
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