Highlighting awards and honours received by our researchers for their excellence and contributions to research and academic practice.
SGH Top 2% Most-cited Scientists 2025
Heartiest congratulations to our researchers who have been recognised among the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists in 2025, in both the single recent-year impact and career-long impact categories. Click here for more details on this prestigious accolade.
This distinguished recognition, developed by Stanford University and powered by Scopus data from Elsevier’s ICSR Lab, celebrates leading scientists across diverse disciplines. The rankings are derived from robust indicators – including the h-index, co-authorship, and adjusted citation counts offering a comprehensive and balanced measure of research excellence.
The NMRC awards honour talented individuals who lead internationally competitive, cutting edge,and innovative translational and clinical research.
HPHSR Clinician Scientist Award (HCSA) – Senior Investigator Recipient
Prof Julian Thumboo
Senior Consultant, Rheumatology & Immunology, SGH
HPHSR Clinician Scientist Award (HCSA) – Investigator Recipient
Assoc Prof Liew Tau Ming
Senior Consultant, Psychiatry, SGH
(2024)
HPHSR Clinician Scientist Award (HCSA) – Investigator Recipient
Asst Prof Pua Yong Hao
Senior Principal Physiotherapist, Physiotherapy, SGH
(2024)
Clinician Scientist Award Investigator (CSA-INV)
Assoc Prof Leung Ying Ying
Senior Consultant, Rheumatology & Immunology, SGH
Clinician Scientist Award Investigator (CSA-INV)
Clin Asst Prof Troy Puar
Senior Consultant, Endocrinology, CGH
Clinician Scientist Award Investigator (CSA-INV)
Asst Prof Tan Hong Chang
Senior Consultant, Endocrinology, SGH
Clinician Scientist Award Investigator (CSA-INV)
Asst Prof Shirin Kalimuddin
Senior Consultant, Infectious Diseases, SGH
The awards honour recipients for their dedicated contributions to healthcare leadership and administration, patient care, education and research. It is a celebration of their commitment to providing high quality care to patients, and a testament to the progress achieved in their respective fields.
Distinguished Researcher Award
Assoc Prof Charles Chuah
Senior Consultant, Haematology, SGH
GCEO Outstanding Researcher Award
Clin Assoc Prof Andrea Low
Senior Consultant, Rheumatology & Immunology, SGH
(2023)
Distinguished Researcher Award
Prof Jenny Low
Senior Consultant, Infectious Diseases, SGH
Distinguished Young Researcher Award (2024)
Clin Asst Prof Ian Wee
Consultant, Infectious Diseases, SGH
The SingHealth Duke-NUS Research Team Award is an annual award that aims to recognise and celebrate outstanding and invaluable contributions by research teams to the biomedical research landscape in the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre (AMC).
The Nurturing Clinician Researcher Scheme (NCRS) aims to nurture young clinicians to become successful clinician-researchers of the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre (AMC), by supporting them with resources, including funding and protected time,to optimise their research competencies & experience, thus their competitiveness for external research grants and readiness to embark on a sustainable research career.
It consists of 3 categories: Nurturing Clinician Scientist Award (NCSA), Nurturing Clinician Innovator Award (NCIA) and Clinician-Investigator Development Award (CIVDA).
Nurturing Clinician Scientist Award (NCSA)
Clin Asst Prof Orlanda Goh
Consultant, Internal Medicine, SGH
Nurturing Clinician Innovator Award (NCIA)
Dr Chng Chiaw Ling
Senior Consultant, Endocrinology, SGH
Nurturing Clinician Innovator Award (NCIA)
Dr Chen Jing
Consultant, Rehabilitation Medicine, SGH
The Pitch-for-Funds (PFF) support aims to equip hospital-based Academic Clinical Programmes (ACPs) with resources to provide seed funding for aspiring researchers within their programmes. This funding enables researchers to generate preliminary data, positioning them to subsequently apply for cluster or national competitive grants.
(2025)
Dr Nerice Ngiam
Senior Resident, Infectious Diseases, SGH
Dr Loo Li Yang
Resident, Dermatology, SGH
Dr Josh Junsuk Ko
Medical Officer, Rheumatology & Immunology, SGH
The SingHealth Publish! Award is an annual event that gives accolade to SingHealth researchers who have published quality articles in internationally acclaimed scientific or medical journals. The award aims to encourage junior researchers to continuously strive to raise the quality of SingHealth’s research publications, raise the international and national profile of SingHealth’s research, and promote translational and clinical research collaborations for the cluster.
The Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list recognises researchers whose work ranks in the top 1% by citations in their field over the past decade.
Prof Jenny Low
Senior Consultant, Infectious Diseases, SGH
Asst Prof Shirin Kalimuddin
Senior Consultant, Infectious Diseases, SGH
The Clinician Investigator Advancement Award (CIVA) is a prestigious award that provides valuable protected time for experienced investigators to further develop their research and support them in their journey to become established clinician researchers.
(2024)
Clin Asst Prof Chng Chiaw Ling
Senior Consultant, Endocrinology, SGH
Clin Asst Prof Tan Chuen Wen
Senior Consultant, Haematology, SGH
The Clinical Trialist Development Award (CTDA) is a prestigious award that provides two tiers of protected time for Clinical Trialists and Master Clinical Trialists, to promote recognition and deepen the focus on research efforts through clinical trials.
Master Clinical Trialist Development Award
(2024) Clin Assoc Prof Chandramouli Nagarajan
Senior Consultant, Haematology, SGH
Clinical Trialist Development Award
(2024) Clin Asst Prof Malcolm Tan
Senior Consultant, Gastroenterology & Hepatology, SGH
(2023) Clin Asst Prof Candice Chan
Senior Consultant, Infectious Diseases, SGH
The Excellence in Research Writing Award from the Association of Academic Physiatrists is an esteemed recognition celebrating outstanding contributions to the field, specifically for exceptional papers submitted to the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in 2023.
(2024)
Asst Prof Pua Yong Hao (Senior Principal Physiotherapist, Physiotherapy, SGH) and his team received the '2023 Excellence in Research Writing Award' from the Association of Academic Physiatrists for their outstanding papers in the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. His team members are: Cheryl Poon, Felicia Seah, John Tan, Ee-Lin Woon, Hwei-Chi Chong, and Julian Thumboo.
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