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Awards and Recognition

Title / CategoriesDetails (description, objective, funding amount)Agency / Institution
Research Support FundsThis funding is for 2 years and is contingent upon establishing a competitive research program at STIIC, SGD 500,000Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Office of Research
Best Poster AwardThe objective of the award was for Research Excellence. The Best Poster Award for Translational Research was awarded to Maura Rossetti for her poster "Circulating HLA-DR+CD4+ T Cells Mirror the Functional T Cell Signature of the Inflamed Synovial Microenvironment and Correlate with Resistance to Therapy in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis" at the SingHealth - Duke-NUS Scientific Congress 2014.SingHealth - Duke-NUS Scientific Congress 2014
Merit Poster PresentationThe objective of the award was for Research Excellence. The Merit Poster Presentation was awarded to Hari Balaji for his poster in the Paediatrics Academic Clinical Program Inaugural Research and Education Day 24 January 2015.Paediatrics Academic Clinical Program Inaugural Research and Education Day
Khoo Postdoctoral Fellowship award (KFPA)Khoo Postdoctoral Fellowship award (KFPA) to Jing Yao Leong for 2 years, manpower support, funding quantum SGD 150,000Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School
Best Poster AwardThe objective of the award was for Research Excellence. The Best Poster Award was awarded to Ms Ang Chieh Hwee, an intern, for her poster "Phenotypic and Functional Analysis of Blood- and Skin- derived DNA Topoisomerase I-specific T Cells Annotates a Potential Inflammatory Role for the Skin Microenvironment in Scleroderma" at the Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore's Research Day 2015.Duke-NUS Medical School
Best Oral PresentationBest Oral Presentation for Intern project titled "Multiplex Characterisation of Immune Genes Copy Number Variation in Juvenile Systemic Lupus Erythematosus" by Ms Xuesi Sim at the SingHealth DukeNUS Paediatric Academic Clinical Programme 4th Research & Education Day, 2017SingHealth DukeNUS Paediatric Academic Clinical Programme
Oral Presentation Merit Award (1st runner up)To presentation titled "Interrogation of Juvenile-onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Immunome for the Elucidation of Disease Mechanism" at Young Scientist's Symposium 2017  Singapore Science Centre
Blue Ribbon AwardTo poster presentation "In active juvenile idiopathic arthritis the synovial microenvironment may shape a discordant transcriptome profile in pathogenic immune subsets from a common precursor" at the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS) Annual Meeting 2017Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies
Best proposal presentation (Cancer category)The Interstellar Initiative — presented jointly by the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development and the New York Academy of Sciences — will recognize the world's most promising Early Career Investigators in the fields of cancer, regenerative medicine, and neuroscience. Proposal received award during the March/August 2017 workshops "The Interstellar Initiative: Aligning Young Stars of Science to Tackle the World's Most Critical Medical Challenges"Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development and the New York Academy of Sciences
Silver AwardTo the oral presentation "Persistence of CD4 memory pathogenic subsets in polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis patients who relapse upon withdrawal of biologic therapy" at the 2017 Annual Congress of the PRes (Paediatric Rheumatology European Society) 2017Kourir Association
Poster of Merit 2018Poster Title: High Dimensional Analysis of Immunome in Systemic Sclerosis Reveals Abnormalities in Frequency and Function of MAIT CellsFederation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS) 2018
Best Poster Competition under Basic Science & Translational Research Category Poster Title: Discovery of Biomarkers for Clinical Response to Radiotherapy in HCC via Deep Immunoprofiling of Peripheral BloodSingHealth Duke-NUS Scientific Congress 2018
6th Paediatrics Academic Clinical Programme Research and Education Day 2019Oral Presentation - 1st prize: Potential Diagnostic and Prognostic Roles of Anti-C1q and Anti-nucleosome Antibodies in Childhood-onset Systemic Lupus ErythematosusSingHealth - Duke-NUS Academia Medical Centre
SingHealth research excellence awardResearch Excellence award to Prof Salvatore AlbaniSingHealth