Giving to REsearch news

• Project Semakau takes off with support from HSBC, NEA and volunteers

  18 December 2008

  Scientists at NUS’ Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research can now do that, thanks to a S$600,000 gift from HSBC. The gift will fund Project Semakau, a three-year census of the abundant flora and fauna at Semakau landfill.

• New Cancer Research Centre of Excellence: Targeting cancers afflicting Asians

  23 October 2008

  Centre will focus on cancers afflicting Asians, says Centre Director and Saw Swee Hock Centennial Professor in Medical Sciences Prof Daniel Tenen.

• Lifetime achievement award for free radical research

  23 October 2008

  Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor Barry Halliwell wins lifetime achievement award for work on free radicals by the Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine (SFRBM) in the US.

• Far East Organization makes S$325,000 gift to Children’s Cancer Centre at NUH

  September 2008

  The gift will support the work of the Viva-University Children’s Cancer Centre, a world-class research and treatment centre for childhood cancers.

• NUS Libraries receives S$30,000 gift to fund newspaper digitisation project

  July 2008

  NUS Libraries’ Lat Pau digitisation project has received a boost, thanks to the gift from the family of former University librarian Mrs Wang-Chen Hsiu Chin. Lat Pau, the longest running Chinese daily in pre-war Singapore, is an invaluable historical resource for research on pre-war Singapore, as well as on overseas Chinese during that era.

• Leading cancer researcher named Saw Swee Hock Centennial Professor and Director of Cancer Research Centre

  June 2008

  Prof Tenen will lead the Cancer Stem Cells Programme which focuses on cancers that affect Singaporeans.

• Lien Foundation, Duke-NUS Medical School collaborate to set up Asia’s first palliative care research and training centre

  March 2008

  The Lien Centre for Palliative Care will fill a vacuum in end-of-life knowledge and training that Singapore currently faces.