GIS RESEARCHERS SELECTED FOR PRESTIGIOUS NRF INVESTIGATORSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP
12 December 2023 - Congratulations to Dr Niranjan Nagarajan, Associate Director and Senior Group Leader at GIS, who was recently selected for the prestigious 9th NRF Investigatorship! Read about Niranjan's recent in-depth study on CPE, a class of antibiotic-resistant bacteria featured on A*STAR Research.
Dr Tim Stuart, GIS’s Senior Research Scientist from the Laboratory of Genome Function, was also awarded the 16th NRF Fellowship for his work on "Design of Synthetic DNA Regulatory Elements for Precision Gene Therapy”.
Both the NRF Investigatorship and Fellowship are highly prestigious and competitive, where 11 Investigators were selected from 36 nominations, and 12 Fellows from 114 eligible applications. The Investigatorship provides opportunities for established, innovative and active researchers to pursue ground-breaking and high-risk research, while the Fellowship supports independent research on potential breakthrough projects led by early-career investigators.