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Congratulations to Ms Chew Ying Ying for receiving The Commendation Medal; Dr Wang Aiwen for receiving The Efficiency Medal; as well as A/Prof Lita Chew and A/Prof Chan Sui Yung for receiving The Long Service Medal in the National Day Awards 2020!

Congratulations Dr Yap Kai Zhen on receiving the Provost Young Educator Award (PYEA) for 2020! Dr Yap will receive funding to visit the Tufts Medical Center to learn about teaching of clinical reasoning skills.

Congratulations Dr Gloryn Chia once again for receiving the prestigious National Research Foundation Fellowship! Her research focuses on novel vaccines and stem cell therapies which could treat cancer and other human diseases.

Congratulations to the lucky winners for 2nd NUS Pharmacy 115th anniversary #PassionPridePurpose contest – Ms Rachel Goh, Mr Neville Chua, Ms Vivian Chin and Ms Ada Tan! Click to view the best memory of their times in NUS Pharmacy.

Congratulations to Lecturer Dr Leroy Koh on receiving the Teaching Enhancement Grant (TEG) AY2020! His study titled “Evaluating the foundational understandings required for the role of health advocacy of Year 1 student pharmacists in a new integrated programme: A phase I study” is in collaboration with Prof Paul Gallagher and Mr Julian Azfar of NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health.

Prof Eric Chan and his collaborators have identified novel binding kinetics of the prostate cancer drug abiraterone which allows optimisation of the therapeutic outcomes. It is a collaboration with researchers from the National University Hospital, Singapore, Flinders University, Australia, A*STAR Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore, University of Chicago, USA and National Cancer Institute (NIH), USA.

Was the past semester a challenging one for educators and students alike? What are some lessons learnt that we can apply in the new normal of teaching and learning? Here’s a blog-piece that comprises a video dedication and reflections by a group of Year 3 Pharmacy students and Dr Chng Hui Ting on their remote teaching and learning experience during the circuit breaker period.

How do you innovate a laboratory-based teaching session in times of COVID-19 pandemic? A/Prof Ho Han Kiat shares his “cooking-show” approach in this article..

Prof Eric Chan wrote an article on repurposing drugs for the treatment of Covid-19, and the strengths and challenges associated with this approach of drug development. The article was published on Straits Time on 13 June 2020.