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Professor Edward Holmes
BRC
Prestigious Honorary Citizen Award
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Professor Jackie Y. Ying
IBN
2011 Silver Award at the Asian Innovation Awards
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Dr Zhang Rui
I2R
IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Best Young Researcher Award
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Professor Dim-Lee Kwong
IME
2011 IEEE Frederik Philips Award
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Dr Juliana Maria Chan Shu Ping
MEL Labs
2011 L’Oréal For Women in Science National Fellowships
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Dr Liu Bin
IMRE
2011 L’Oréal For Women in Science National Fellowships
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Prof Michael Meaney
SICS
Appointed to the Order of Canada
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Stem Cell Group
GIS
President’s Science Award (PSA)
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Prestigious Honorary Citizen Award
Singapore conferred prestigious Honorary Citizen Award on Professor Edward Holmes, Deputy Chairman, Translational and Clinical Science Group (A*STAR) and Executive Chairman of the National Medical Research Council (NMRC) for his valuable contributions to Singapore. The award is the highest form of recognition bestowed by the Singapore Government for outstanding contributions by individuals to the country’s growth and development. It is conferred on those who have made a significant impact in the areas of business, science and technology, information communications, education, health, arts and culture, sports, tourism, community services or security. |
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Professor Jackie Y. Ying
IBN
2011 Silver Award at the Asian Innovation Awards
IBN’s MicroKit won the Silver Award at the Asian Innovation Awards 2011 organized by The Wall Street Journal Asia. The Asian Innovation Awards recognize innovations that break with conventional processes in creative ways. Developed in Singapore by IBN Executive Director, Professor Jackie Y. Ying and her team members, Guolin Xu and James Tseng-Ming Hsieh, the MicroKit is an automated diagnostic device that can detect viruses rapidly and accurately within two hours. Current efforts to contain infectious diseases are often hampered by the time it takes to diagnose and isolate those carrying the virus. Conventional diagnostic tests can take up to half a day and can only be conducted in dedicated biosafety laboratories by clinical personnel, who might risk accidental exposure to the virus. |
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IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Best Young Researcher Award
Dr Zhang Rui, a research scientist at A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), won the “6th IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Best Young Researcher Award” for his outstanding participation and active involvement in IEEE ComSoc publications and conferences in the last 3 years. Since joining I2R in 2007, Dr. Zhang has conducted extensive research in various aspects of wireless communications. He has worked on several frontier research areas, including multi-user communication systems with multi-antenna transmitters and/or receivers (multi-user MIMO), cognitive radio and cooperative communication. Currently, he is continuing his research in these areas, exploring new promising areas of wireless communications research related to energy issues, such as energy efficiency, energy harvesting and smart grid. |
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2011 IEEE Frederik Philips Award
Prof Dim-Lee Kwong, Executive Director of A*STAR’s Institute of Microelectronics, was recognized with the 2011 IEEE Frederik Philips Award “for leadership in silicon technology and excellence in the management of microelectronics research and development.” Prof Kwong has led IME in developing next-generation R&D programs such as in MEMS, bioelectronics and silicon photonics, which are attracting the interest of Fortune 500 companies, and offer the potential of anchoring high-value added manufacturing activities locally. Past recipients of the IEEE Frederik Philips Award include co-founder of Intel Gordon E. Moore, who famously formulated Moore’s Law that predicted computing advancements, and CTOs of IBM, Hitachi and Motorola. The award will be presented at a ceremony at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting in December 2011. |
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2011 L’Oréal For Women in Science National Fellowships
Dr Juliana Chan’s doctorate research resulted in her designing a new type of nanoparticle, which is a hybrid of liposomes and polymeric nanoparticles, and has the beneficial properties of both classes. Named “nanoburrs”, these extremely tiny nanoparticles can carry pharmaceutical drugs within them. Their surfaces are covered with short proteins that selectively adhere to blood vessel walls. This invention is extremely useful for drugs that need to be targeted at blood vessel walls. Theoretically, the same targeted nanoparticle principle can be used to deliver any drug to any part of the body that requires it most. |
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Dr Liu Bin
IMRE
2011 L’Oréal For Women in Science National Fellowships
Dr Liu Bin and her research team are focusing on the synthesis of new energy materials and the design of different device architectures which will result in low cost, high efficiency solar cells. They have specially designed conjugated polymer hole transporting materials (HTM) and organic/inorganic interpenetrating network structures to improve the device efficiency to over seven percent, a champion efficiency for solid state HTM based, dye sensitized solar cells. |
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Prof Michael Meaney
SICS
Appointed to the Order of Canada
Prof Michael Meaney was appointed to the Order of Canada for his contributions to neuroscience, notably through his research on the effect of early adversity on neural development. His work examines the relationships between early environmental influences and their effects on brain development and behaviour. Widely recognized as an authority in developmental neuroscience and epigenetics, the Meaney lab has, in many of its studies, provided evidence for epigenetic mechanisms as mediators of the sustained effects of early environmental influences in neural development and function, and have translated these findings into research programs that link child abuse, epigenetic regulation of gene transcription and vulnerability for psychopathology. |
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Stem Cell Group
GIS
President’s Science Award (PSA)
The 2011 President’s Science Award (PSA) was conferred to A*STAR’s Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) Stem Cell Group comprising Dr Lim Bing, Dr Lawrence Stanton, Dr Ng Huck Hui and Dr Paul Robson. The Stem Cell Group at A*STAR’s Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) was recognised as being the first in the world to map the gene regulatory networks controlling stem cell functions. Using cutting-edge genomic technologies, the team has advanced the critical know-how to maintain embryonic stem cells, and induce them to create a wide range of specialised cell types in the body. |
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Last Updated on 12 January 2012
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