26th February 2016. NUS University Hall Auditorium
Submit your abstract here.
What's new (25/02/2016):
Registration has closed! Excited? The programme of the conferences has been finalized, including the oral presentation of our fellow NGS mates. All of the profiles of our invited speakers and their abstracts can be found at their respective pages via the links below.
We look forward to seeing you at the symposium tomorrow! Feel free to approach us and hope you have a great time!
Organizing committee of RiSE 2016
Registration has closed! Excited? The programme of the conferences has been finalized, including the oral presentation of our fellow NGS mates. All of the profiles of our invited speakers and their abstracts can be found at their respective pages via the links below.
We look forward to seeing you at the symposium tomorrow! Feel free to approach us and hope you have a great time!
Organizing committee of RiSE 2016
What's new (12/01/2016):
We have finalized our conference prizes! Never had I ever seen such attractive prizes for a student symposium!
Submit an abstract for your oral or poster presentation before 22nd January 2016 for the NGS R.i.S.E symposium!
You stand the chance to win an IPad Mini 4 for the Best Oral Presentation, S$200 CapitaVoucher for the runner-up and 6 participants for the oral presentation will get S$20 CapitaVoucher!
Prefer to give a poster presentation? 4 winners of Best Research Poster will get S$80 CapitaVouchers, while 4 winners of Best Poster Design will get S$50 CapitaVouchers and 19 participants for poster presentation can get S$10 CapitaVouchers each!
Research is not ready to be presented yet? Just register for the symposium and 10 winners stand a chance to win a S$10 CapitaVoucher during the quiz sessions held during the symposium.
What are you waiting for? Register now!
We have finalized our conference prizes! Never had I ever seen such attractive prizes for a student symposium!
Submit an abstract for your oral or poster presentation before 22nd January 2016 for the NGS R.i.S.E symposium!
You stand the chance to win an IPad Mini 4 for the Best Oral Presentation, S$200 CapitaVoucher for the runner-up and 6 participants for the oral presentation will get S$20 CapitaVoucher!
Prefer to give a poster presentation? 4 winners of Best Research Poster will get S$80 CapitaVouchers, while 4 winners of Best Poster Design will get S$50 CapitaVouchers and 19 participants for poster presentation can get S$10 CapitaVouchers each!
Research is not ready to be presented yet? Just register for the symposium and 10 winners stand a chance to win a S$10 CapitaVoucher during the quiz sessions held during the symposium.
What are you waiting for? Register now!
What's new (08/12/2015):
We are honored to have Prof. Too Heng-Phon as the keynote speaker for our conference. He is the founder of the local start-up MiRXES, a spin-off based on microRNA detection technologies developed in collaboration between NUS and A*STAR. We are looking forward to him sharing his view on translational research and developing commercialized technology.
We are honored to have Prof. Too Heng-Phon as the keynote speaker for our conference. He is the founder of the local start-up MiRXES, a spin-off based on microRNA detection technologies developed in collaboration between NUS and A*STAR. We are looking forward to him sharing his view on translational research and developing commercialized technology.
The theme for the 8th NGS symposium is R.i.S.E. (Research, Innovation, Science and Enterprise) - a significant departure from the family of L.O.R. related themes of previous years. The conference aims to provide a platform for you to share your research ideas and explore projects from other fields, while providing opportunity for you to interact with both speakers and participants.
Featuring both guests speakers from both academia and industry, the conference allows you to explore career opportunities and other rewarding prospects after graduation.
Date: 26 February 2016 (Friday)
Time: 9 a.m to 5 p.m (Registration starts at 8:30 a.m)
Venue: NUS University Hall Auditorium
Register today!
Featuring both guests speakers from both academia and industry, the conference allows you to explore career opportunities and other rewarding prospects after graduation.
Date: 26 February 2016 (Friday)
Time: 9 a.m to 5 p.m (Registration starts at 8:30 a.m)
Venue: NUS University Hall Auditorium
Register today!
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Too Heng-Phon
Associate Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department, NUS
Founder of local start-up MiRXES
Awardee of Commercialization & Technology Grant and GAP funding by A*STAR.
Keynote title:
A journey worth considering – a personal experience in forming a Singapore spin-off
Detailed profile and abstract
Industrial Speakers
Science speaker
Prof. David Virshup
Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School
Director of the Programme in Cancer and Stem Cell Biology at Duke-NUS Medical School
Industrial talk title:
Dare You Search For a Magic Bullet?
Detailed profile and abstract
Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School
Director of the Programme in Cancer and Stem Cell Biology at Duke-NUS Medical School
Industrial talk title:
Dare You Search For a Magic Bullet?
Detailed profile and abstract
Engineering speaker
Mr Lin Wei Liang
Co-Founder (Design R&D) at T.Ware Red Dot Design Award, 2012 Dyson Award (National Top 10) CES Innovations Honoree International Design Competition Osaka 2005 Excellent work Singapore Design Award (Merit) Industrial talk title; Tware: From research to autism to mass market Detailed profile and abstract |
Focused Discussion
Dr Melissa Fullwood
Assistant Professor at the Nanyang Technological University Principal Investigator at the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, and a joint Principal Investigator at the Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR Detailed profile |
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