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Wednesday, 28 Dec, 2022

National Medical Research Council (NRMC) Award Winners 2022

Congratulations to our clinician scientists and researchers who received national grants* to transform patient care through research!

This year, two teams received the Open Fund-Large Collaborative Grant (OF-LCG) of S$25 million each for their research in liver cancer and glaucoma respectively. 

20 clinician scientists and researchers received talent development awards under the Singapore Translational Research Investigator Award, Clinician Scientist Award and the Transition Award categories. 

In addition, 2 healthcare professionals, including an allied health professional, received the Clinician Innovator Award and 3 clinician scientists received the Health Promotion, Preventive Health, Population Health and Health Services Research (HPHSR) Clinician Scientist Awards (HSCA) - Investigator award.

The NMRC 2021 grant call award winners are as follows: 

Open Fund-Large Collaborative Grant (OF-LCG) S$25 Million

Precision Medicine in Liver Cancer across an Asia-Pacific Network (PLANet 2.0)

Prof Pierce Chow
and his team from NCCS, A*STAR's GIS and IMCB, CSI Singapore and Duke-NUS

TAckling & Reducing Glaucoma Blindness with Emerging Technologies (TARGET)

Prof Aung Tin

and his team from SERI, CGH, Duke-NUS, A*STAR, NTU and NUHS

Singapore Translational Research Investigator Award (STaR)

Prof Marcus Ong
SGH, Duke-NUS

Prof Stuart Cook
NHCS, Duke-NUS
Assoc Prof Toh Han Chong
NCCS, Duke-NUS

Clinician Scientist Award – Senior Investigator (CSA-SI)

Prof Tina Wong
SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS

Clinician Scientist Award – Investigator (CSA-INV)

Dr Adeline Ng
NNI, Duke-NUS

Asst Prof Angela Koh
NHCS, Duke-NUS

Assoc Prof Donny Hoang
SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS

Assoc Prof Gavin Tan
SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS

Dr Lim Tze Peng
SGH, Duke-NUS
Assoc Prof Liu Yu-Chi
SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS

Asst Prof Saumya Shekhar Jamuar
KKH, Duke-NUS

Asst Prof Shweta Singhal
SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS

Assoc Prof Sng Ban Leong
KKH, Duke-NUS

Health Promotion, Preventive Health, Population Health and Health Services Research (HPHSR) Clinician Scientist Awards (HSCA) - Investigator

Assoc Prof Charumathi Sabanayagam
SERI, Duke-NUS

Assoc Prof Low Lian Leng
SCH, Duke-NUS
Dr Tham Yih Chung
SERI, Duke-NUS

Clinician Innovator Award

Dr Jasmine Ong
SGH
Dr Tay Hsien Ts'ung
SGH, Duke-NUS

Transition Award (TA)

Clin Assoc Prof Chong Shu-Ling
KKH, Duke-NUS

Asst Prof Francis Wong
SKH, Duke-NUS

Clin Asst Prof Jason Chan
NCCS, Duke-NUS

Clin Asst Prof Lohendran Baskaran
NHCS, Duke-NUS
Assoc Prof Marcus Ang
SNEC, SERI, Duke-NUS

Dr Oh Choon Chiat
SGH, Duke-NUS

Dr Troy Puar
CGH, Duke-NUS
 
* NMRC grant cycles Jun 2021 and Nov 2021

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