SingHealth Immunopathology Workshop 2023

Pathology ACP organised its first inaugural SingHealth Immunopathology Workshop on 8 – 9 May 2023 at Academia, SGH.

More than 100 local and overseas participants comprising practising pathologists, pathology fellows and residents, clinicians and healthcare professionals benefited from the informative lectures and workshop during the 2-day event.

We were privileged to have the following overseas and local external faculty for our workshop.

Tony Lim (MBBS, FRCPath, FRCPA) – Chairman and Senior Consultant, SGH Div of Pathology and Academic Chair, Pathology ACP
Joe Yeong (MBBS, PhD) – Principal Investigator, SGH Dept of Anatomical Pathology & Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), A*STAR
Carlo B. Bifulco (MD) – Chief Medical Officer, Providence Genomics and Director of Translational Molecular Pathology and Molecular Genomics, Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, USA
Chin Wee Tan (PhD) – Senior Research Fellow, Bioinformatics Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI), Australia
Tullia C. Bruno (PhD) – Assistant Professor of Immunology, UPMC Hillman Cancer, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Loo Lit-Hsin (PhD) – Senior Principal Investigator, Bioinformatics Institute (BII), A*STAR, Singapore
Sizun Jiang (PhD) – Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, USA

Here are some highlights of the course:


Course director, Prof Tony Lim (Chairman, SGH Div of Pathology and Academic Chair, Pathology ACP) extended a warm welcome to the participants.

Participants actively engaging in both lectures and workshops, and enthusiastically participating in the Q&A sessions.

Our invited faculty, Dr Sizun Jiang, Dr Loo Lit-Hsin, Dr Carlo Bifulco, Dr Chin Wee Tan, A/Prof Tullia Bruno with course director, Dr Joe Yeong.		Poster presentation by the participants, showcasing their research.

A panel discussion with esteemed faculty, covering all aspects of Spatial.

The workshop included a poster presentation segment, allowing participants to showcase their research and ideas to fellow specialists, healthcare professionals and researchers. Moreover, they had the opportunity to receive one-to-one coaching from our esteemed faculty on their concepts. Participants who presented their posters stood a chance to win at services and products on spactial technology generously sponsored by NanoString Technologies, Singapore and 10x Genomics.

Our heartiest congratulations to the poster presentation winners!

*Recipients of awards sponsored by NanoString Technologies, Singapore:*

Dr Jia Meng Research Fellow, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), ASTAR*	Vivian Chih-Wei Chen MD-PhD Candidate, Duke-NUS	Wharton Chan MD-PhD Candidate, Duke-NUS

Recipients of awards sponsored by 10x Genomics:

Dr Sonia Chothani Research Fellow, Duke-NUS		Joey Lee Senior Research Officer, Bioinformatics Institute (BII), ASTAR*

Norbert Tay PhD Student, Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, NUS		Dr. Giulio Giustarini Research Fellow, Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), A*STAR

We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to our valued sponsors who made this event possible. Thank you for contributing to the success of this event.