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Scholars' Awards

 Our scholars have received the following awards.

2011
Dr Melissa Jane Fullwood - NSS (BS-PhD)
2011
Outstanding Achievements in Research 2011
 
Dr Vincent Tan Yan Fu– NSS(PhD)
2011
Outstanding Achievements in Research 2011
 
Dr Loh Xian Jun – AGS(PDF)
2011
Elected Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University
 
Benjamin Tee – NSS(PhD)
2011
Gold Award and Academy Award in the TSMC Outstanding Student Research Award 2011
 
Dr Juliana Maria Chan Shu Ping – NSS(BS-PhD)
2011
2011 L’Oreal for Women in Science National Fellowships
 
Dr Melissa Jane Fullwood – NSS(BS-PhD)
2011
General Electric (GE) and Science Prize for Young Life Scientists 2011 for original essay “Genome-Wide Chromatin Loops Regulate Transcription”
 
Seah Kang Yee – NSS(BS)
2011
Best BSc Organic Project Poster Prize
 
Jiang Sizun – NSS(BS)
2011
University of Wisconsin-Madison Library Research Award
 
Kang Yu Hui – NSS(BS)
2011
Academic Award from Cambridge
 
Ng Jian Duan Johnathan – NSS(BS)
2011
Keyes Donald B Scholarship from UIUC
 
Tan Lu Wen Shawn –NSS(BS)
2011
Beloff-Chain Award for obtaining best overall performance in Biochemistry degree
 
Aniq Ahsan – NSS(BS)
Sep 2011
SINDA Excellence Award
 
Gaurav Mukesh Manek – NSS(BS)
Sep 2011
SINDA Excellence Award
 
Nagarajan Karthik – NSS(BS)
Sep 2011
SINDA Excellence Award
 
Ramyiadarsini Indira Elangovan – NSS(MBBS-PhD)
Sep 2011
SINDA Excellence Award
 
Murugappan Karthik – NSS(BS)
Sep 2011
SINDA Excellence Award
 
2010

 

Dr Samantha Lee Lin Chiou - AGS
Sep 2010
Outstanding Achievements in Research 2010
 
Dr Tanu Suryadi Kustandi – AGS
Sep 2010
Outstanding Achievements in Research 2010
 
Dr Samantha Lee Lin Chiou – AGS
Feb 2010
Best Oral Presentation Prize in the Annual IMCB Post-Doc and Student Symposium
 
Dr Loh Xian Jun – AGS PDF
2010
Young Scholars Award 2010
 
Dr Tony Quek – NSS(PhD)
2010
2010 Best Paper and Gold Best Paper Awards by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Communications Society

Dr Jonathan Loh Yuin Han - AGS PDF

Oct 2009
Young Scientist Award (YSA) 2009

2009

Dr Melissa Fullwood - NSS(PhD)

Aug 2009
L'Oreal Singapore for Women in Science National Fellowships

Dr Yvonne Tay Mei San - AGS

Oct 2009
Outstanding Achievements in Research 2009

 

Dr Joel Yang Kwang Wei - NSS(PhD)

Oct 2009
Outstanding Achievements in Research 2009

2008

Dr Tony Quek - NSS(PhD)

Aug 2008
Outstanding Achievements in Research 2008

 

Dr Jonathan Loh - AGS

Aug 2008
Outstanding Achievements in Research 2008

 

Zhao Ziqing - NSS(BS)

Oct 2008
Richard P. Schuster Memorial Prize 2008

2007

Lin Zhaoru - NSS(PhD)

Dec 2007
Winner, Regional and National Finals, BiotechnologyYES, University of Nottingham Institute for Enterprise and Innovation (UNIEI) & Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), United Kingdom

 

Sim Xiu Li - NSS(BS)

Oct 2007
Nuffield Scholarship (Oxford University)

 

Tan Chern Yee Geoffrey - NSS(MBBS-PhD)

Oct 2007
Jackie Deakin Essay Competition

 

Lee Sook Yee - NSS(BS)

Sep 2007
University College London Undergraduate Faculty Scholarship

 

Ang Kah Wee - AGS(Local)

Aug 2007
2007 IEEE Electron Device Society PhD Student Fellowship Award

 

Lee Hui Mien - AGS(Local)

Jul 2007
Best Student Paper Award on 5th International Conference on "Design and Manufacture for Sustainable Development"

 

Tan Haihan - NSS(BS)

Jul 2007
Kaetrin V Simpson Prize in Natural Sciences

 

Teo Peili - AGS(Local)

Jul 2007
1st Asian Coordination Chemistry Conference

 

Ang Kah Wee - AGS(Local)

Jun 2007
2007 TSMC Outstanding Student Research Award (First Prize/Gold Award)

 

Tan Chern Yee Geoffrey - NSS(MBBS-PhD)

Jun 2007
Pittsburgh Brain Activity Interpretation Competition 2007

 

Zhao Ziqing - NSS(BS)

Apr 2007
Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

 

Goh Keng Yong, Winston - NSS(BS)

Mar 2007
William W Mullins Undergraduate Award

 

Liemhetcharat Somchaya - NSS(BS)

Mar 2007
CMU Mobot Competition

 

Ong Chee Bing - NSS(BS)

Feb 2007
Dwight's Prize 2006

 

Choong Swee Neo Cleo - NSS(PhD)

Jan 2007
Adjunct Assistant Professorship (2007-2008) at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

 

Choong Swee Neo Cleo - NSS(PhD)

Jan 2007
Nominated for the Young Scientist Award 2007 by A*STAR and Nanyang Technological University

 

Foo Chuan Sheng - NSS(BS)

Jan 2007
Winner of the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Male Undergraduate Award 2008

 

Kurbanhusen Mustafa Shabbir - AGS(Local)

Jan 2007
Andrew Fraser Prize 2007

 

Wang Huiqi Grace - AGS(Local)

Jan 2007
Won Young Researcher Award at SSDM 2007

 

Wang Huiqi Grace - AGS(Local)

Jan 2007
ESSDERC 2007 Best Paper Award

 

Yeo Boon Thye Thomas - NSS(PhD)

Jan 2007
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) Young Scientist Awards

 

Zhao Ziqing - NSS(BS)

Jan 2007
Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of America Award

 


 

Scholars' Publications

Our scholars have published the following :

1

Guo Huili - NSS(PhD)

Guo, H., Ingolia, N.T., Weissman, J.S., Bartel, D.P. (2010) Mammalian microRNAs predominantly act to decrease target mRNA levels. Nature 466: 835-840.
2

Melissa Jane Fullword

An oestrogen-receptor-alpha-bound human chromatin interactome.

Fullwood MJ, Liu MH, Pan YF, Liu J, Xu H, Mohamed YB, Orlov YL, Velkov S, Ho A, Mei PH, Chew EG, Huang PY, Welboren WJ, Han Y, Ooi HS, Ariyaratne PN, Vega VB, Luo Y, Tan PY, Choy PY, Wansa KD, Zhao B, Lim KS, Leow SC, Yow JS, Joseph R, Li H, Desai KV, Thomsen JS, Lee YK, Karuturi RK, Herve T, Bourque G, Stunnenberg HG, Ruan X, Cacheux-Rataboul V, Sung WK, Liu ET, Wei CL, Cheung E, Ruan Y.

Nature.5;462(7269):58-64. (Nov 2009)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19890323

3

Shawn Hoon

An integrated platform of genomic assays reveals small-molecule bioactivities

Shawn Hoon, Andrew M Smith, Iain M Wallace, Sundari Suresh, Molly Miranda, Eula Fung, Michael Proctor, Kevan M Shokat, Chao Zhang, Ronald W Davis, Guri Giaever, Robert P St Onge & Corey Nislow

Nature Chemical Biology 4, 498 - 506 (2008)

4

Foo Jia Nee

Rare independent mutations in renal salt handling genes contribute to blood pressure variation

Weizhen Ji , Jia Nee Foo , Brian J O'Roak , Hongyu Zhao , Martin G Larson , David B Simon , Christopher Newton-Cheh , Matthew W State , Daniel Levy & Richard P Lifton

Nature Genetics 40, 592–599 (1 May 2008)

5

Poon Yi Nuo, Vivian

UNC-6/Netrin and its receptor UNC-5 locally exclude presynaptic components from dendrites

Vivian Y. Poon, Matthew P. Klassen & Kang Shen

Nature 455, 669-673 (2 October 2008)

6

Yvonne Tay - AGS

MicroRNAs to Nanog, Oct4 and Sox2 coding regions modulate embryonic stem cell differentiation

Yvonne Tay, Jinqiu Zhang, Andrew M. Thomson, Bing Lim & Isidore Rigoutsos

Nature 455, 1124-1128 (23 October 2008)

7

Joel Yang Kwang Wei - NSS(PhD)

Graphoepitaxy of Self-Assembled Block Copolymers on Two-Dimensional Periodic Patterned Templates

Ion Bita, Joel K. W. Yang,Yeon Sik Jung,Caroline A. Ross,Edwin L. Thomas,Karl K. Berggren

Science 15 August 2008: Vol. 321. no. 5891, pp. 939 - 943

8

Lim Yee Fun - NSS(PhD)

Lim Y. F., Lee, S., Herman, D. J., Llyod, M. T.,  Anthony, J. E. (2008). Malliaras, "Spray-deposited poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene): Poly(styrenesulfonate) top electrode for organic solar cells". Applied Physics Letters, 93 (19).

9

Kaan Hung Yi Kristal - NSS(PhD)

Wang, Q., Kaan, H. Y, Hooda, R. N., Goh,  S. L., Sondermann, H. (2008). Structure and Plasticity of Endophilin and Sorting Nexin 9. Structure, 16(10), 1574-87

10

Teoh Yu-Lin Denise - NSS(PhD)

Ho, L. P., Denney, L., Luhn. K., Teoh, D., Clelland, C., McMichael, A. J. (2008). Activation of invariant NKT cells enhances the innate immune response and improves the disease course in influenza A virus infection. European Journal of Immunology, 38(7), 1913-22.

11

Chen Huijia - AGS(Overseas)

Chen, H., Ho, J. C., Sandilands, A., Chan, Y. C., Giam, Y. C., Evans, A. T, Lane, E. B, McLean, W. H. (2008). Unique and Recurrent Mutations in the Filaggrin Gene in Singaporean Chinese Patients with Ichthyosis VulgarisJournal of Investigative Dermatology ,128, 1669–1675.

12
Christine Cheung 
Generation of human vascular smooth muscle subtypes provides insight into embryological origin–dependent disease susceptibility
 Nature Biotechnology (2012)
13
Alfred Sun
MicroRNA-mediated conversion of human fibroblasts to neurons
Yoo AS, Sun AX, Li L, Shcheglovitov A, Portmann T, Li Y, Lee-Messer C, Dolmetsch RE, Tsien RW, Crabtree GR.
Nature 2011, 476(7359):228-31
14
Chu Ci
Genomic maps of long noncoding RNA occupancy reveal principles of RNA-chromatin interactions.
Molecular Cell, Volume 44, Issue 4, 667-678, 30 September 2011

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