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Scholars' Awards

 Our scholars have received the following awards.

2013
Benjamin Tee – NSS (PhD)

MRS Graduate Student Gold Award, 2013 Materials Research Society (MRS)

 
Kedar Hippalgaonkar – NSS (PhD)

MRS Graduate Student Silver Award, 2013 Materials Research Society (MRS)

 
Zhao Ziqing – NSS (PhD)

Student Research Achievement Award by the Biophysical Society

Dudley R. Herschbach Teaching Award

  Lin XInyi – NSS (PhD)

International Biometric Society's Eastern North American Region (ENAR) Distinguished Student Paper Award, 2013

2012
Zhao Ziqing – NSS (PhD)

Dudley R. Herschbach Teaching Award

 
Lin Xinyi – NSS (PhD)
2012

American Public Health Association Student Research Competition (First Place) in Applied Public Health Statistics, 2012

Mu Sigma Rho (National Statistics Honor Society), 2012

 
Ngiam Jiquan – NSS (PhD)
2012
Listed in Forbes 30 under 30 for Education
 
Dr Jaslyn Law – AGS
2012

Winner of Loreal Women In Science National Fellowship (Material Science)

 
Tan Zhihao – NSS (PhD)
2012
Best poster for Chromosome Dynamics at 2012 Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology Meeting, Princeton NJ
 
Chan Wee Lee – NSS (PhD)
2012
Yeda Award for the best poster to Proteopedia
 
Dr Sarah Ng Boon Hsi – NSS (BS-PhD)
2012
Listed in Forbes 30 under 30 for Science & Innovation
 
Dr Joel Yang Kwang Wei – NSS (PhD)
Mar 2012
Awarded the TR35@Singapore Award by Technology Review
 
Dr Jonathan Loh – AGS (PDF)
Mar 2012
Awarded the TR35@Singapore Award by Technology Review
2011
Chan Wee Lee - NSS (PhD)
2011
Best Poster at Symposium for Biological and Life Sciences Stude 2011
  Lin Xinyi – NSS(PhD)
2011

Student Presentation Award (First Place), Toxicogenomics Integrated with Environmental Sciences (TIES) Conference, 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
2009

Dr Yvonne Tay Mei San - AGS

Oct 2009
Outstanding Achievements in Research 2009

 

Dr Jonathan Loh Yuin Han - AGS PDF

Oct 2009
Young Scientist Award (YSA) 2009

 

Dr Joel Yang Kwang Wei - NSS(PhD)

Oct 2009
Outstanding Achievements in Research 2009

 

Dr Melissa Fullwood - NSS(PhD)

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

 2008

Dr Jonathan Loh - AGS

Aug 2008
Outstanding Achievements in Research 2008

 

Dr Tony Quek - NSS(PhD)

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 :

2012

Wang Yin Min (NSS-PhD)

Deep-tissue focal fluorescence imaging by digitally time-reversed ultrasound-encoded light. Nature Communications 3:928. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1925 (2012) *equal contribution and co-corresponding 

Featured in: Nature Methods 9, 781 (2012) doi:10.1038/nmeth.2124. Microscopy: Toward deep tissue fluorescence imaging

Ying Min Wang*, Benjamin Judkewitz*, Charles A. DiMarzio, and Changhuei Yang

 
Benjamin Tee (NSS-PhD)

An electrically and mechanically self-healing composite with pressure- and flexion-sensitive properties for electronic skin applications, Nature Nanotechnology (2012), doi: 10.1038/nnano.2012.192. [Epub ahead of print]

Benjamin C-K. Tee, ChaoWang, Ranulfo Allen and Zhenan Bao

 
Chen Naiyan (NSS-PhD)
Nucleus basalis-enabled stimulus-specific plasticity in the visual cortex is mediated by astrocytes, PNAS 2012, 109 (41), 16427–16428

Naiyan Chen, Hiroki Sugihara, Jitendra Sharma, Gertrudis Perea, Jeremy Petravicz, Chuong Le and Mriganka Sur,

 
Wan Yue (NSS-PhD)
Genome-wide measurement of RNA folding
energies. Molecular Cell, 2012. 10.1016/j.molcel.2012.08.008

Yue Wan, Kun Qu, Michael Kertesz, Zhengqing Ouyang, Jun Li, Robert Tibshirani, Robert
C. Nutter, Eran Segal, Howard Y. Chang

 
Christine Cheung 
Generation of human vascular smooth muscle subtypes provides insight into embryological origin–dependent disease susceptibility

Nature Biotechnology (2012) 

 

Leow Dasheng Jackson

 Activation of remote meta-C–H bonds assisted by an end-on template D. Leow, G. Li, T.-S. Mei, J.-Q. Yu Nature 2011, 476(7359): 228-31

2011 Wan Yue- NSS(PhD)

Yue Wan, Michael Kertesz, Robert C. Spitale, Eran Segal and Howard Chang. (2011) Understanding the transcriptome through RNA structure. Nature Reviews Genetics 12(9):641-55

  Chu Ci

Genomic maps of long noncoding RNA occupancy reveal principles of RNA-chromatin interactions. Ci Chu, Kun Qu, Franklin L. Zhong, Steven E. Artandi, Howard Y.Chang

Molecular Cell Volume 44, Issue 4, 667-678, 30 September 2011

 
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
2010

Wan Yue - NSS(PhD)

Michael Kertesz*, Yue Wan*, Elad Mazor, John L. Rinn, Robert C. Nutter, Howard Y. Chang, Eran Segal. (2010) Genome-wide Measurement of RNA Secondary Structure in Yeast.  Nature 467(7311):103-7.   * these authors contributed equally.
 

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.
 

Tan Meng How - NSS(PhD)

An essential transcription factor, SciP, enhances robustness of Caulobacter cell cycle regulation.
Tan MH, Kozdon JB, Shen X, Shapiro L, McAdams HH.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Nov 2;107(44):18985-90. Epub 2010 Oct 18.
2009

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

2008

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)

 

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)

 

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)

 

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)

 

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

 

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).

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

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