Research Highlights

Congratulations to Prof Giorgia Pastorin, Dr Gloryn Chia, Dr Tang Wei and all team members and collaborators on the recent articles!

Congratulations to Associate Professor Rachel Ee and her team on their recent Nano Letters publication titled “Structure-Guided Bacteria Specificity and Wide Activity Spectrum of Endotoxin-Responsive Peptide Nanonets”!

Congratulations to Dr Brandon Morinaka and his team on their recent Nature Chemistry publication titled “Fused radical SAM and αKG-HExxH domain proteins contain a distinct structural fold and catalyse cyclophane formation and β-hydroxylation”!

Congratulations to our faculty members who are recognized as the World’s Top 2% Scientists as published by the Stanford University on 16th September 2024 (Elsevier)!

Dr. TIAN Chong and her team have been awarded research funding from the Ministry of Education (MOE) for a Tier 2 project entitled, ‘Bridging Chemistry and Biology: Synthesis, Structure, and Properties of Mechanically Interlocked Peptides (MIPs).’ This project will lay the foundation for developing mechanically interlocking technology for the next generation of peptide therapeutics.

Congratulations to Thamizhanban (PhD candidate under Asst Prof Gloryn Chia) for winning the Best Graduate Researcher Award 2024 in the Department! The award was presented by Dean Prof Sun Yeneng on 29th July 2024.

Wonders of Pharmacy: Advanced Drug Delivery Systems

A/P Giorgia Pastorin’s BioNanotechnology (BNT) research group has published a research article “Fluorescence-guided Spatial Drug Screening in 3D Colorectal Cancer Spheroids” in Advanced Healthcare Materials.

Congratulations to A/Prof Koh Hwee Ling, Ms Glenis Lim (Class of ’19), Mr Marcus Wong (Class of ’19) and A/Prof Tan Chay Hoon on their newly published book: Grow Your Own Medicine, Edible Healing Plants in your Garden.