Our Awards FY11-12

Local Awards

• NUHS Clinician Scientist Program (NCSP) [Feb 2012]
  "Novel Eye Imaging for Brain Diseases in the Elderly"
  Assoc Prof Kamran Ikram, Clinician Scientist, SERI

• NUHS Clinician Scientist Program (NCSP) [Feb 2012]
  "Dissecting Novel Phenotypes and Genotypes Underlying the Complexity of Primary Angle Closure Glaucoma"
  Dr Cheng Ching-Yu, Adjunct Clinician Scientist, SERI

• 2nd Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Annual Graduate Scientific Congress 2012, Best Oral Presentation [Feb 2012]
  "Automated Optic Nerve Head Measurement Software - A Glaucoma Screening Tool"
  Dr Tham Yih Chung, Optometrist, SERI

• 2nd Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Annual Graduate Scientific Congress 2012, Best Oral Presentation [Feb 2012]
  "A Novel Locus for Central Corneal Thickness on Chromosome 6q 14.1"
  Dr Monisha E. Nongpiur, Senior Clinical Research Fellow, SERI

• NUHS, Faculty Research Excellence Award 2011 [Oct 2011]
  Prof Donald Tan, Medical Director, SNEC

• Ophthalmology Research Day 2011, Best Paper Presentation Novartis Travel Award, 1st Runner Up & Best Innovative Research Idea Award [Oct 2011]
  "In Vivo Analysis of Iris Constriction Vectors in Subjects with Closed-Angle"
  Dr Zheng Ce, Clinical Research Associate, SNEC

• Ophthalmology Research Day 2011, Best Paper Presentation Novartis Travel Award, 1st Prize & Outstanding Charismatic Speaker Award & Best Slides Presentation Award [Oct 2011]
  "Quantification of Optic Nerve Head Cu/ Disc Ratio Using Novel Semi-Automated Grading Software"
  Dr Tham Yih Chung, Optometrist, SERI

• Ophthalmology Research Day 2011, Best Paper Presentation Award, 2nd Runner Up [Oct 2011]
  "Algorithm for Prediction of Narrow Angles"
  Dr Monisha E. Nongpiur, Senior Clinical Research Fellow, SERI

• NUH, Lee Kuan Yew Postdoctoral Fellowship 2011 [Aug 2011]
  Assoc Prof Kamran Ikram, Clinical Research Fellow, SNEC

• SingHealth Synergy, SingHealth Outstanding Publication Award [Jul 2011]
  Retinal-Vein Occlusion published at The New England Journal of Medicine 2010
  Prof Wong Tien Yin, Director, SERI

• 1st Singapore Health & Biomedical Congress, Singapore Young Investigator Award 2010, Clinical Research [Apr 2011]
  "Novel Quantitative Retinal Vascular Changes in Diabetes and Retinopathy"
  Dr Carol Cheung, Research Scientist, SERI

• Singapore General Hospital 19th Annual Scientific Meeting – Frontiers of Medicine, Young Investigator Award (Clinical) [Apr 2011]
  "Determinants of Angle Width in Chinese Singaporeans"
  Ms Lilian Foo, Research Student, DUKE-NUS

International Awards

• ARVO 2012, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, US (6 – 10 May 2012), Santen Pharmaceutical - Japan Travel Grant Award 2012 [Feb 2012]
  Dr Monisha E. Nongpiur, Senior Clinical Research Fellow, SERI

• ARVO 2012, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, US (6 – 10 May 2012), ARVO 2012 Travel Grant Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology – International [Feb 2012]
  Dr Peggy Chiang Pei Chia, Research Fellow, SERI

• ARVO 2012, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, US (6 – 10 May 2012), ARVO 2012 Travel Grant Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology – International [Feb 2012]
  Dr Ainur Rahman Bin Anuar, Clinical Research Fellow, SERI

• ARVO 2012, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, US (6 – 10 May 2012), ARVO 2012 Travel Grant Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology – International [Feb 2012]
  Dr Arun Kumar Narayanaswamy, Senior Clinical Research Fellow, SERI

• ARVO 2012, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, US (6 – 10 May 2012), Silver Fellow in the Class of 2012 [Jan 2012]
  Prof Saw Seang Mei, SERI

• Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, National Prestigious Veni Grant 2011 [Dec 2011]
  "The Influence of the Microcirculation on the Cardiovascular Development in Young Children – the Generation R"
  Assoc Prof Kamran Ikram, Clinician Scientist, SERI

• The ARVO Foundation for Eye Research (AFER) and the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), Genetech, 2011 AFER/Vistakon Dry Eye Fellowship [Dec 2011]
  "Meibomian Gland Dysfunction - Novel Heat Treatments and their Impact on the Tear Film, Meibum Composition and Glandular Structures"
  Dr Andrea Petznick, Postdoc Research Fellow, SERI

• 2011 Merlion France-Singapore Programme, PhD Project [Dec 2011]
  "Cell Adhesion and Migration"
  Ms Evelyn Png, Research Officer, SERI

• Australia and New Zealand Corneal Society 2011, Doug Coster Award [Dec 2011]
  Prof Donald Tan, Medical Director, SNEC

• Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology – American Academy of Ophthalmology 2011, Best Poster Award [Oct 11]
  "Intraoperative Use of Spectral Domain OCT during Descemet-Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty to Assess Donor Attachment and Thickness"
  Assoc Prof Jod Mehta, Prof Donald Tan, Dr Federico Luengo

• American Academy of Ophthalmology, International Ophthalmologist Education [Oct 2011]
  Assoc Prof Jod Mehta, Head and Senior Consultant (Research), Corneal and External Eye Disease Service, SNEC

• Carl Zeiss International User Group Meeting, Best Paper [Jul 2011]
  "Endothelial Culture and Femtosecond Laser"
  Assoc Prof Jod Mehta, Head and Senior Consultant (Research), Corneal and External Eye Disease Service, SNEC

• 27th Malaysia-Singapore Joint Ophthalmic Congress, Second Prize Best Oral [Jun 2011]
  "Involvement of MicroRNAs in Pterygium Development"
  Ms Lan Wanwen, Research Officer, SERI

• 27th MSJOC Best Oral Presentation [Jun 2011]
  "Molecular Regulation of Wounding Response on the Ocular Surface"
  Ms Evelyn Png, Research Officer, SERI

• Canadian Society of Ophthalmology 2011, Bruce Jackson Award [Jun 2011]
  Prof Donald Tan, Medical Director, SNEC

• The Vision Research Community, Best Publications 2011 [Apr 2011]
  "Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy and Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Same or Different Disease?"
  Laude A, Cackett RD, Vithana EN, Yeo IY, Wong D, Koh AH, Wong TY, Aung T