Research Highlights

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Tian Chong who is part of a team of researchers known as the Molecular Ratcheteers, on being awarded the Organic Chemistry Horizon Prize: Perkin Prize in Physical Organic Chemistry (2023).

A NUS start-up, PharLyfe+, founded by A/Prof Chan Sui Yung and her students, Dr Tan Poh Leng and Ms Chua Qi Shan recently developed easy-to-use oral films that enable painless, efficient, and discreet drug administration, especially for young children or the elderly.

A/Prof Chan Sui Yung together with Ms Tan Poh Leng (PhD student) and Ms Chua Qi Shan (final-year Pharmacy student) have developed medicated films, a painless and effective way to administer medications. This innovative solution is created by their very own start-up company focusing on drug delivery, Phar-Lyfe+.

Wonders of Pharmacy: The power of bioinformatics

Associate Professors Rachel Ee and Rajamani Lakshminarayanan led their research team to develop ‘nanonets’ that can trap and kill bacteria strains to tackle the problem of antibiotic resistance.

A research team led by Prof Eric Chan has collaborated with the Analytical Toxicology Laboratory of Singapore’s Health Sciences Authority (HSA) to investigate the key metabolic properties and identify urinary biomarkers of four OXIZID analogues, specifically BZO-HEXOXIZID, BZO-POXIZID, 5F-BZO-POXIZID and BZO-CHMOXIZID.

Congrats to Professor Eric Chan on the latest development of an improved pharmaceutical drug for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) and it took a 8-member research team 8 years to achieve this breakthrough.

Prof Eric Chan and his team developed a virtual simulation strategy using physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modelling to evaluate the pharmacotherapy of two COVID-19 drugs, Paxlovid and baricitinib. They hope to help guide dose adjustments for those in the vulnerable population.

Congratulations to Associate Professor Doreen Tan, who has published a few articles with her collaborators!