In this series, Science@NTU gets to know the 2021 CoS valedictorians. They give a quick overview of their time in CoS, and also offer a few words of advice on staying positive during these uncertain times. Finally, we have Lee Shu Hui from the School of Physical and...
In this series, Science@NTU gets to know the 2021 CoS valedictorians! They give a quick overview of their time in CoS, and also offer a few words of advice on staying positive during these uncertain times. First up, we have Victoria Cahyani Tanggono from the Asian School of the Environment (ASE).
NTU students Elysia and Christopher emerged winners in the 2021 Grass Roots Student Project Competition organised by RS Components, an MNC which specialises in electronics, automation and control components. Their project, the Remotely-Controlled Biological Microscope, was developed for the Making & Tinkering undergraduate course, which is offered by CoS.
Congratulations to Team Benthos on winning the International Natural Sciences Tournament (INST)! The INST Grand Finals concluded on 25 July 2021.
Scientists in Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) led by Professor James P Tam, have discovered a first-in-class, plant-derived epidermal growth factor (EGF) and an ultrastable analog for healing of chronic wounds, an unmet problem in treatment of diabetic wounds. This is the first EGF receptor agonist that is structurally different from all previous EGFs and first such growth factor found in plants – the rose cactus, used widely in Southeast Asia. Since aberrant regulation of EGF or its receptor is associated with certain type of cancers, their findings also open new avenues to develop targeted therapies for cancer.
Kong Weijia, a PhD student in the NTU School of Biological Sciences, finished 1st in Singapore and 12th worldwide (out of more than 6600 participants) in the Code Jam to I/O for Women, a coding competition organised by Google. Science@NTU caught up with Weijia to find out more about her experience with Code Jam, and her aspirations as a woman in science.
Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be one of the most serious infectious diseases in the world, accounting for 1.7 million deaths in 2019. Approximately a quarter of the world’s population is infected with the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis in latent form. TB is of...
The Best of Both Worlds: BSc in Chemistry and Biological Chemistry with Second Major in Business (International Trading) Launching in August 2021, this selective programme, hosted in NTU School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, is offered in partnership with...
NTU College of Science (CoS) has recently established a partnership with Quantum Black, a McKinsey company. They specialize in analytics and will provide case study mentorship for some of our CoS students. For a start, Quantum Black and CoS co-designed a case study-centric course for the School of Biological Sciences (SBS) MSc in Biomedical Data Science programme. CoS will work towards expanding this partnership so that more of our students will benefit in the future.
As COVID-19 spreads across the world, Assistant Professor Pun Chi Seng investigates an efficient social distancing policy (ESDP) with the use of stochastic epidemic modeling and deep learning algorithms, in which this methodology could be used for future unexpected pandemics.