Events

August 2019

05 August 2019
5pm

Translational Biopharmaceutics: linking the lab to the patient

June 2019

27 June 2019
10am

Artificial Intelligence in Accelerating Drug Discovery

May 2019

15 May 2019
5pm

Engineered Biosynthesis of Medicinal Natural Products

April 2019

*cancelled*

15 Apr 2019
5.30pm

DEAD-box RNA Helicase DP103 and Statin Sensitivity in Triple Negative Breast Cancer

15 Apr 2019
5pm

AI Platform for Drug Combination Design and Personalised Medicine

8 Apr 2019
5pm

Targeting Inflammatory Cytokines for Cancer Immunotherapy

1 Apr 2019
5.30pm

Precision Oncology

1 Apr 2019
5pm

Developing Antisense Oligonucleotides (ASOs) to Target Cancer-Associated RNA Editing Events

March 2019

25 Mar 2019
5pm

3D Printing of Functional Electronics and Ingestible Biomedical Devices

22 Mar 2019
10.30am

Pharmacy Programme in Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

18 Mar 2019
5pm

Sydney Pharmacy School research – leading and influencing

15 Mar 2019
4pm

Enzymatic Synthesis of Complex Natural Products in- and ex vivo

11 Mar 2019
**rescheduled to 5pm

A Trans-splicing Based Suicide Gene Therapy Approach Targeting Viral Infection and Cancer

4 Mar 2019
5.30pm

Targeting the Autophagy-Lysosomal Pathway for Development of Novel Cancer Therapeutic Approaches

4 Mar 2019
5pm

Redox Perspective on Cancer Cell Fate Signaling

February 2019

26 & 27 Feb 2019
9am – 5pm

Advanced Modelling Techniques in Health Technology Assessments and Real World Evidence Generation

25 Feb 2019
9am – 12.30pm

AY18/19 Semester 2 Postgraduate Seminar

18 Feb 2019
5pm

Chemodiversity and Antibiotic Activities of Natural Products from Biodiverse Marine Sediment-Derived Actinobacteria of the Philippine Archipelago

11 Feb 2019
5pm

New insights into an old target: study of bacterial peptidoglycan biosynthesis and beyond

January 2019

28 Jan 2019
5pm

Advanced Genetics in Arbitrary Strains of E. coli

14 Jan 2019
5pm

Sense and Sensibility of Carbohydrates

14 Jan 2019
11am

How to Battle Nutrient Excess? The Biology and Mechanism of Lipid Storage

December 2018

18 Dec 2018
2pm

From finding the right molecules to picking the optimal first-time-in-human dose: How can PK/PD modeling help improve drug discovery success?

14 Dec 2018
11am

Platinum Anticancer Agents: From Magic Bullets to Cluster Bombs

November 2018

26 Nov 2018
5pm

Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics in Drug Discovery and Development

19 Nov 2018
5pm

Microbial sequencing and bioinformatics pipelines for public health genomics

12 Nov 2018
5pm

Continuous Manufacturing at Janssen Pharmaceutics

9 Nov 2018
10am

Towards Structure-Based Formulation Design

October 2018

29 Oct 2018
5pm

Computer Modeling of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Drug Delivery

24 Oct 2018
2pm

Overview of EUDRAGIT® polymers for oral drug delivery

22 Oct 2018
5pm

Microbial Proteases – Functions and Therapeutics

15 Oct 2018
5pm

Impact of Pharmacist-involved Collaborative Effort in Combating War on Diabetes in Singapore

8 Oct 2018
5pm

In vitro priming of human PBMCs to study adverse drug reactions to carbamazepine

1 Oct 2018
5pm

Development of novel anti-inflammatory and anticancer nanomedicines

September 2018

19 Sep 2018
2pm – 6pm

AY18/19 Semester 1 Postgraduate Seminar

17 Sep 2018
5pm

Engineering the Nano-Bio Interface to Enhance Disease Therapy

14 Sep 2018
4pm

Targeting Epigenetic Erasers for Drug Discovery

August 2018

08 August 2018
3pm

Epigenome Studies of Natural & Herbal Medicinal Products: A New Frontier

July 2018

13 July 2018
10am

Poster Presentations Are Effective Continuous Assessment Activities to Foster Integrated Learning by Undergraduate Pharmacy Students

June 2018

28 June 2018
3pm

Functional Degradable Nanogels by Reactive Precursor Block Copolymers for Immunotherapy

12 June 2018
9am – 5pm

Pharmacy Research Day 2018

May 2018

23 May 2018
11am

Bioactive Natural Products from Marine Organisms and Chinese Medicine

April 2018

16 April 2018
5pm

Temporal Trends and Patient Characteristics associated with Drug Utilization after Incident Stroke from 2010 to 2014

13 April 2018
9am – 12pm

NUS Pharmacy-DAAD Symposium

9 April 2018
5pm

Proteomic profiling of Tumour-derived Exosomes in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

5 April 2018
11am

Marine Natural Products as Starting Points for Drug Discovery and Development

5 April 2018
4.30pm

The sequestration of drugs in lysosomes: Mechanisms and therapeutics consequences

4 April 2018
11.30am – 2.30pm

NUS Greater Goods Series – Advancing the role of pharmacists

2 April 2018
5pm

Leveraging theory and user-centered design strategies in the development of an app for oral anticancer medication adherence

March 2018

19 March 2018
5pm

Understanding die fill variation during mini-tablet production

15 March 2018
10am

Dissolution: Applications, regulations and critical control points

10 March 2018
9am – 6pm

Actual Day Highlights

5 March 2018
5pm

Development of a 3D Printed Human Lung Module Assembly for Inhalation Drug Testing

1 March 2018
12pm

Building A Competent Pharmacy Workforce – Using Entrustable Professional Activities as Guide

February 2018

26 & 27 February 2018

9am – 5pm

PHARMACOGENOMICS: Clinical Implementation Strategies And Pharmacists’ Roles

22 & 23 February 2018

9am – 5.30pm

The Science, Art and Regulation of Consumer Care Products: The Workshop

News article from NUS Faculty of Science

December 2017

26 December 2017
5pm

Biodegradable Nanoparticles: A Platform for Lipophilic Drugs Delivery

November 2017

20 November 2017
5pm

A paradigm shift in the identification, characterization and sorting of cells

17 November 2017
11am

How to Battle Nutrient Excess? The molecular mechanism of energy storage

16 November 2017
11am

Mechanisms linking glucose sensing to AMPK activation and implications

13 November 2017
5pm

Discovery of ARE-Keap1-Nrf2 signaling pathway modulators as potential neuroprotectants

8 November 2017
4pm

Chemically Engineered Protein Therapeutics – Advancing Beyond the Genetic Code for Biomedical Research

October 2017

30 October 2017
5pm

Effect of Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators on Lithocholic Acid Metabolism

24 October 2017
1pm

Small Changes Have Big Effects: Genetic Profiling To Predict Pathogenicity

23 October 2017
5pm

Delivering Antigenic Peptides to Immune Cells to Control Autoimmune Diseases

10 October 2017
2.30pm

Nanocarriers for drug delivery – Rational formulation design

2 October 2017
5pm

Mechanistic Study On The Influence of Polymers on Drug Crystallization Inhibition And Supersaturation Maintenance

August 2017

28 August 2017
5pm

GBeyond the magic bullets: Emerging paradigm of relaxin-3 derived stapled peptides targeting on nucleus incertus networks in the brain

21 August 2017
5pm

Getting a PhD – an asset or liability?

14 August 2017
5pm

Integrated solutions to non-natural amino acids: selection and combination of synthetic technology and biotechnology/a>

4 August 2017
9am

Research Sharing session

July 2017

24 July 2017
5pm

Role of serum albumin as a nanoparticulate carrier for nose-to-brain delivery of R-flurbiprofen: Implications for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease

17 July 2017
5pm

Quantification and Formulation of Apigenin Trimethylether (ATE): Application to Preclinical Pharmacokinetic Studies

10 July 2017
5pm

Ophthalmic Drug Delivery Systems: Formulation considerations using polymeric biomaterials

6 & 7 July 2017
8.30am

International Conference on “Scientific Frontiers in Natural Products Based Drugs

3 July 2017
5pm

Induction of mitochondrial dysfunction and cancer cell death by dual active Mitochondria-targeting Pt(IV) compounds

June 2017

22 June 2017
10am

Synthesis of advanced self-assembly nanobiomaterials for drug delivery applications: Can we balance innovation and translatability?”

19 June 2017
5pm

The MultiBac Platform and its Application in Human Immunity

05 June 2017
5pm

Disintegrant-moisture interaction on tablet performance: A study with crospovidone

May 2017

29 May 2017
5.00pm

Delineating the mechanisms of cardiac adverse effects of dronedarone: A role of CYP2J2

8 May 2017
5.00pm

Lipid-Dendrimer Hybrid Nanosystems for the Smart Delivery of Anticancer Drug Combinations in Ovarian Cancer Treatments

2 May 2017
12.00pm

Bioavailability Enhancement with Lipid-Based Formulation

April 2017

17 April 2017
5.00pm

Towards precision medicine: the role of next generation sequencing technologies and it’s evolution by Dr. Poon Song Ling

11 April 2017
10.00am

“Women Preferences for and Cost-Effectiveness Analyses of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Gene Testing in Breast Cancer Screening”

10 April 2017
5.00pm

Combating Antimicrobial Resistance: From Peptide Design to Delivery Methods by Dr. Rajamani Lakshminarayanan

5 April 2017
9.00am

Pharmacy Research Awareness Symposium 2017

1 April 2017
9.00am

BioBiz 2017: Explore.Engage.Embark

News article

March 2017

27 March 2017
5pm

Aiyo! I-O: A Primer in Immuno-Oncology by Ms. Wendy Ng Huiwen

27 March 2017
10.30am

PKC zeta inhibitors to modulate drug permeation in epithelia and tumors by Professor Gerrit Borchard

17 March 2017
9am – 4pm

Event Highlights

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Actual Day Highlights

9 March 2017
3pm

Biomimetic Nanotechnology for Improved Cancer Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment: Targeted delivery platforms and cancer cell capture devices by Professor Hong Seungpyo

February 2017

27 February 2017
9:30am

Guest Speaker: 

Prof Yuichi Sugiyama

AAPS-NUS Student Chapter: Visiting Scientist Program 2017

21 & 22 February 2017
9:00am

Medication Therapy Management (MTM) Workshop by Dr. Daniel Touchette

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November 2016

7 November 2016
5pm

New Aspects and Challenges of modern Solid Dosage Form Development and Processing by Dr. George Shlieout

October 2016

31 October 2016
5pm

Exploring the use of salivary caffeine as a dynamic liver function marker by A/Prof. Ho Han Kiat

24 October 2016
5pm

Melt Spheronization: Direct Rotary Shaping Process for Hot Melt Extrudates by Ms. Thin Yu Tun

21 October 2016
10am

Medicinal Chemistry in the Era of Big Data and HPC by Prof. Xu Jun

17 October 2016
5pm

Predicting survival of metastatic colorectal cancer patients who undergo primary tumor resection by Mr. Sreemanee Raaj Dorajoo

10 October 2016
5pm

2016 IDSA Candidiasis Guideline Update: Clinical Controversies and Treatment Implications by Dr. Zhe Han

3 October 2016
5pm

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Community Pharmacist-led Diabetes Care Program in Singapore by Ms. Melanie Siaw

September 2016

29 September 2016
5pm

Clinical Aspects and Diagnosis of Drug Allergies: A cross-continental Comparison by Dr. Paul Bigliardi

26 September 2016
5pm

Mitochondrial chaperones in heme synthesis by Dr. Yvette Yien

19 September 2016
5pm

PIWI and associated RNAs in modulating microglial activation by Dr. Qidong Hu

16 September 2016
11am

Building Capacity for Translational Research in Supportive Cancer Care by A/Prof. Raymond Chan

5 September 2016
5pm

Understanding the Physiological Roles of the Mitochondrial Outer Membrane Protein, MOAP-1, in Liver and Brain by A/Prof. Victor Yu

3 September 2016
8:30am to 6:30pm

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Challenge 2016

August 2016

22 August 2016
5pm

Study of Drug Loading to Ion Exchange Resin by Hot-Melt Extrusion for Taste Masking by Mr. David Tan Cheng Thiam

15 August 2016
5pm

Innovative applications for medication safety and compliance by Mr. Lim Teck Sin

8 August 2016
5pm

Challenge and Progress in Delivering Diagnostic and Therapeutic Agents to the Brain by Prof. Teruna J. Siahaan

July 2016

4 July 2016
5pm

Big Data Opportunities in the National University Health System by Dr. Wee Hwee Lin

June 2016

27 June 2016
5pm

Developing New Dihydrofolate Reductase Inhibitors As Antibacterial Agents Through Scaffold-based Molecular Hybridization by Mr. Yang Xuan

20 June 2016
5pm

Design and synthesis of small molecules for the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells by Mr. Zhong Qixing

6 June 2016
5pm

Open Access Publishing and Scholarbank@NUS by Ms. Chew Shu Wen

May 2016

30 May 2016
5pm

Nanomaterial and Small Molecule Based Regulation of Hematopoietic Stem & Progenitor Cell Fate by Mr. Sudipto Bari

23 May 2016
5pm

Evaluation of a care transition program with pharmacist-provided home-based medication review for elderly Singaporeans at high risk for hospital re-admissions by Mr. McVin Cheen

23 May 2016
10am

Chemical and Genetic Studies of Marine Cyanobacteria, a Treasure Trove of Bioactive Natural Products by Prof. William Gerwick

16 May 2016
5pm

Cost-Effectiveness of Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factors Prophylaxis Strategies for Chemotherapy-Induced Febrile Neutropenia in Cancer Patients by Mr. Wang Xiaojun

10 May 2016
11am

New and interesting compounds from Bangladesh medicinal plants by Dr. Choudhury Mahmood Hasan

April 2016

20 April 2016
5pm

Medication Review in the Care Continuum- Closing the Loop by A/Prof. Lalitha Raman-Wilms

13 April 2016
5pm

Achieving Optimized Care: importance of engaging the patients and caregivers by A/Prof. Lalitha Raman-Wilms

11 April 2016
5pm

Multidisciplinary Team Experience in Cardiology – Heart to Heart Process by A/Prof. Vivian Lee

March 2016

28 March 2016
5pm

Developing Protein-DNA Hybrid Biocompatible Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications by Ms. Johanna Quambusch

21 March 2016
5pm

Discovery of cancer cell-selective anticancer compounds with a unique dual mechanism of action by Mr. See Cheng Shang

14 March 2016
5pm

G9a Inhibitor-led small molecules: a retro-mechanistic approach to anticancer drug discovery by Ms. Uttara Soumyanarayanan

7 March 2016
5pm

Modeling and Tool Development for Studying Protein Interactions and Large Protein Networks by Mr. Zhang Peng

3 March 2016
11am

Genomics-based Precision Medicine: Making the Case in Childhood Leukemia by Dr. Jun J. Yang

February 2016

29 February 2016
5pm

Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor Genetic Polymorphism (rs6265) is Protective against Chemotherapy-associated Cognitive Impairment in Patients with Early-stage Breast Cancer by Mr. Terence Ng Rong De

25 February 2016
11am

Targeting Cell Survival Pathways by Prof. David Huang

22 February 2016
5pm

Novel Strategies for the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease: from In Vitro Modelling to Cell Therapy and Beyond by Prof. Hans Junjinger

1 February 2016
5pm

Network Meta-Analysis by Dr. Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk

January 2016

25 January 2016
5pm

Theranostic Strategies for Monitoring and Optimizing Targeted Nanomedicines by Prof. Gert Storm

18 January 2016
5pm

Medicinal Plants and Malaria by Ms. Cecilia Teng

15 January 2016
5pm

Hybridizing Liposomes with Dendrimers: A new, emerging approach to improve drug delivery by A/Prof. Gigi Chiu Ngar Chee

11 January 2016
5pm

Hydrogel Microwells for Human Hair Follicle Engineering In Vitro by Dr. Kang Lifeng