The A*STAR – Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School (GMS) Neuroscience Research Partnership (NRP), which was forged in October 2007, aimed to establish an integrated, multidisciplinary programme in neuroscience with a strong focus on translational research. This partnership will capitalise on the complementary research strengths and resources available within the A*STAR Research Institutes and the Duke-NUS GMS Neuroscience and Behavioural Disorders (NBD) Signature Research Programme.
Located across two campuses, at Biopolis and at Outram, the NRP researchers and clinician scientists can have access to a wide range of research facilities, resources and expertise.
At Biopolis: Proteos Building
George J AUGUSTINE, Professor
Colin BLAKEMORE, Professor
Suresh JESUTHASAN, Dr
Thomas LEUNG, Assoc. Professor
Edward MANSER, Assoc. Professor and Acting Director
At Outram: Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Campus
Michael CHEE, Professor
Marc FIVAZ, Asst. Professor
Eyleen GOH, Asst. Professor
Joshua GOOLEY, Asst. Professor
Richard KEEFE, Professor
Ranga KRISHNAN, Professor, Dean
Tih-Shih LEE, Assoc. Professor
Ting-Kai LI, Professor
Kah Leong LIM, Assoc. Professor
Seang Mei SAW, Assoc. Professor
Steve ROZEN, Assoc. Professor
Shirish SHENOLIKAR, Professor and Assoc. Dean for Research
Eng King TAN, Assoc. Professor
Antonius VANDONGEN, Assoc. Professor
Hongyan WANG, Asst. Professor
Fulton WONG, Professor
Terri YOUNG, Professor
Xiaodong ZHANG, Asst. Professor
Please click here for more information on the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School NDB Signature Research Programme.
Leadership
The NRP is led by its Executive Director, Professor Dale Purves (Email: purves@neuro.duke.edu). He is also concurrently the Programme Director of the NBD Signature Research Programme.
Professor Purves was the Director of the Center of Cognitive Neuroscience and is George Barth Geller Professor for Research in Neurobiology at Duke University. He received a B.A. from Yale University in 1960 and an M.D. from the Harvard Medical School in 1964. After several years in clinical medicine as a surgical house officer at the Massachusetts General Hospital and as a Peace Corps Physician, he gave up medicine in favour of a career in neuroscience research. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard from 1968 to 1971, and in the Department of Biophysics, University College London, from 1971 to 1973.
He then joined the faculty in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the Washington University in 1971, where he remained until 1990. During that time, he studied the development of the nervous system and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1989. Following which, he came to Duke to 1990 as the founding chair of the Department of Neurobiology, where he became increasingly interested in cognitive neuroscience. Purves's work at Duke was focused on visual and auditory perception (music), exploring the hypothesis that, as a means of contending with the inverse problem, percepts are generated by neural strategy that represents the empirical significance of sensory stimuli rather than their physical features.
Contact the NRP @ Biopolis
Address: 61 Biopolis Drive #04-19 Proteos Singapore 138673
Tel: (65) 6586 9753
Fax: (65) 6774 0742
Email:
enquiry@nrp.a-star.edu.sg