November 2025
Bowling Season
Seminar by Professor Dirk W. Grijpma
September 2025
Celebrating NUS 120
August 2025
Welcome new members to join us
June 2025
Congratulations to Suet Yen on Successfully Defending Her PhD Thesis
Congratulations to Wenhui on passing her PhD Qualifying Examination
May 2025
Farewell Dinner for Our PhD Students and Colleagues
A heartfelt farewell to our PhD students — Sitong, Suet Yen, and Nilofer — and our colleagues Yanqiu, Vaarsha, and Michelle. Wishing each of you the very best in your future endeavors. Thank you for the memories and contributions — you will be missed!
Congratulations to Nilofer on Successfully Defending Her PhD Thesis
Nilofer has successfully defended her PhD thesis. We extend our heartfelt congratulations on this remarkable achievement and wish her continued success in all her future endeavors!
Congratulations to Sitong on Successfully Defending Her PhD Thesis
Sitong has successfully defended her PhD thesis. This marks a major milestone in her academic journey, and we warmly congratulate her on this outstanding achievement. Wishing Sitong continued success in her future endeavors!
March 2025
Insights into RNA Modification by Prof. Jiangbo Wei, NUS Presidential Young Professor, Department of Chemistry
Prof. Jiangbo Wei (photo on the left) from the NUS Department of Chemistry delivered an insightful talk on RNA modification.
Team Movie Night
Team Movie Outing: Watching Ne Zha 2 Together!
Birthday celebration
Birthday celebration for January, February and March babies 🎂🥳
February 2025
NUS Dept of Surgery-Pharmacy Joint Seminar : Prof. Dr. Dr. Twan Lammers, RWTH Aachen University, Germany’s Lecture
Prof. Dr. Twan Lammers delivered an insightful lecture on ‘Smart Strategies to Promote Cancer Nanomedicine Performance and Clinical Translation,’ offering valuable perspectives on advancing nanomedicine from research to clinical application.
Celebrating the Success of CRSingapore 2025: A Collaborative Effort
CRSingapore 19-21 Feb 2025
A heartfelt thank you to everyone for your tremendous efforts in organizing CRSingapore 2025, our inaugural conference! The event has been a great success, and we sincerely appreciate the unwavering support from the Department of Surgery, the Department of Pharmacy, and our co-organizer, the Controlled Release Society. It has been an insightful conference where scientists gathered to exchange knowledge, spark new ideas, and foster meaningful connections through science. We couldn’t have done it without all of you!
Congratulations Suet Yen for winning the oral award 👏🏻👍🏻
Registration for CRSingapore 2025 Conference
We are organising the CRS Conference Singapore (CRSingapore 2025), please hurry up to register before the seats run out! Click HERE to register!
January 2025
New Year, New Beginnings: A Festive Team Celebration
Ushering in the Lunar New Year with the team at Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel Singapore! 🎉🍽️ A wonderful dinner to kickstart the year ahead. 🧧🐍#CNYCelebration #TeamBonding
November 2024
Birthday celebration
Birthday celebration for Xinyi and Xichuan 🎂🥳
October 2024
🎤 Team Bonding Karaoke Session
We had a great team bonding karaoke session with our alumni – Fred and Yuanzhe.
Birthday celebration
Birthday celebration for Prof, Hou Xiao and Xiaoying 🎂🥳
Seminar talk presented by Prof Xiaowei Wang, co-director of Centre for Cardiometabolic mRNA Therapy at the Baker Institute
An interesting talk on “Molecular Imaging and Nanotherapy Approaches for Cardiovascular Diseases” by Prof Xiaowei Wang who heads the division of atherothrombosis and co-directs the Centre for Cardiometabolic mRNA Therapy at the Baker Institute.
Birthday celebration
Birthday celebration for Nilofer 🎂
Seminar presented by Xi’an Jiaotong University First Affiliated Hospital (China)
A remarkable seminar presented by the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.
August 2024
BBQ Team bonding
The BBQ was such a blast—we had an incredible time!
We enjoyed the great food and drinks.
Thank you, Prof Storm, for the amazing wine. It made the evening even more special!
Thank you for all the hard work that went into making the BBQ such a success.
July 2024
Birthday celebration
Happy blessed birthday, Mingyuan 🎂🥳
Farewell lunch for Hui Jun, Roma and Yin Jie
Thank you Roma, Hui Jun and Yin Jie for your invaluable contributions to the lab. We wish you all the best for your future endeavors!
June 2024
Birthday celebration
Birthday celebration with May and June babies 🎂
May 2024
NTA workshop organized by NUS and Malvern Panalytical – 16 and 17 May 2024
A fulfilling two-day workshop on the nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA) characterization, data analysis, extracellular vesicles, and exosomes applications organized by NUS and Malvern Panalytical.
Appreciation lunch for Final Year Project students and supervisors
A great lunch with the Final Year Project undergraduate students and their supervisors. Thank you for the great effort and work!
Birthday celebration with April and May babies 🎂
April 2024
SingCham delegation visit to Centre for Nanomedicine
Prof Lee Chuen Neng (left) introduces NUS Medicine and Scientific research to the Chinese delegation from the Singapore Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China (SingCham) on 9 April 2024.
Prof Jiong-Wei Wang is giving a presentation on the Translational Research at the Centre for Nanomedicine.
March 2024
Birthday celebration
Birthday celebration for the March babies 🎂😄
Milk EVs and nanoprobe works featured in NUSMed Yearbook 2023
Congratulations to the team for their milk extracellular vesicles and nanoprobe works being featured in NUSMed Yearbook 2023 👏🏻👍🏻
MSC-EV Research in ASEAN : Bridging the Gap for Clinical Applications – SOCRATES Scientific Meeting 2024
Congratulations to Sitong (top photo) and Haining (bottom photo) for their excellent presentation on milk-derived extracellular vesicles work during the MSC-EV Research in ASEAN : Bridging the Gap for Clinical Applications – SOCRATES Scientific Meeting on 7-8 March 2024 👏🏻👍🏻
February 2024
Team bonding event – Bowling
A great team bonding event 🎳 followed by dinner at Sanook Kitchen 😄
Chinese New Year Celebration
Toss to a prosperous year of dragon 🥳🍊🍊
Birthday celebration
Celebration of birthday for December, January and February babies 🎂🥳
January 2024
Inspiring talk by Prof Randy Schekman, 2013 Nobel laureate for extracellular vesicles work
An inspiring talk by Prof Randy Schekman, 2013 Nobel laureate for his extracellular vesicles work, co-organized with Prof Minh Le’s group in NUS. It was a great opportunity to attend the talk and Prof Schekman’s words have inspired many who work in the field of extracellular vesicles.
December 2023
Lab Christmas Gift Exchange
Fun christmas gift exchange 🎁😄
CVRI Christmas 2023
We won 3rd prize for the Dress Up Santa Photo Competition held by Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI) NUS. Congratulations to Yan Miao for winning the lucky draw 👏🏻👏🏻
November 2023
Birthday celebration
Birthday celebration for November babies : Adam, Daniel, Wenhui, Xinyi, Yanqiu and Pei Peng 🎂🥳
October 2023
Birthday celebration
Birthday celebration for Prof Jiong-Wei Wang and Hou Xiao 🎂🥳
Felix’s farewell dinner
Congratulations Felix on your PhD graduation and we wish you all the best in your future endeavours!
Research Seminar – RNA nanomedicines: towards new therapeutic applications
An inspiring lecture on the RNA nanomedicines : towards new therapeutic applications by Prof Raymond Schiffelers from University Medical Center, Utrecht, Netherlands on 20 October. The lecture was chaired by Prof Jiong-Wei Wang and jointly hosted by Department of Surgery and Nanomedicine Translational Research Programme, Centre for Nanomedicine.
Clinical Nanomedicine 2023 : Fulfilling the Global Potential
On the left : Congratulations to Felix who presented his work in the Clinical Nanomedicine 2023 : Fulfilling the Global Potential which was held in Basel, Switzerland from 8th to 11th October. On the right : Prof Storm was invited as a speaker in the conference.
September 2023
Mid-autumn celebration at Jurong Lake Garden
Mid-autumn celebration at Jurong Lake Garden on 28 September 2023. We had a great dinner at Fusion Spoon and lots of fun visiting the beautiful lantern displays and tasting the food at food street 👍🏻👍🏻
Seminar on scanning ion conductance microscopy
Dr. Peter Gorelkin, a co-founder of ICAPPIC, an R&D company for scanning ion conductance microscopes (SICM) gives an interesting lecture on the application of scanning ion conductance microscope for ion channels research on 26 September 2023.
Young Researcher of the Year Award 2023
Congratulations to Prof Jiong-Wei Wang on your achievement of the Young Researcher of the Year Award for 2023 during the NUS Medicine Awards on 12 September 2023 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 (Left : Vice Dean for Research, Prof Chng Wee Joo; Right : Prof Jiong-Wei Wang)
August 2023
BBQ gathering
A fun-filled evening with good food and laughter!
June 2023
May and June birthday celebration
Birthday celebration for Vaarsha, Yuanzhe and Hui Jun 🎂🥳
Badminton session
Badminton session with the team! 👍👍
May 2023
Online-seminar talk by Prof Wang
Prof Wang was invited to give a talk in an online-seminar held by Phospholipid Research Center on “Liposomal phospholipid bilayer facilitates DHA utilization in atherosclerosis”. Webinar May 2023 – Prof. Wang
April 2023
Farewell lunch and lab outing
Farewell lunch for Sabrina and Xian Yan, we wish you all the best in your future endeavours!
Nice lunch gathering and farewell at The Royals Bistro, UTown.
Dr. Sadra from Nature Reviews Bioengineering
Dr. Sadra Bakhshandeh who is an associate editor introducing Nature Reviews Bioengineering to Nanomedicine TRP on 4 April.
March 2023
Lab outing
Japanese dinner at J3 by Beastro 👍🏻
Yuanzhe’s PhD Thesis Defense
Congratulations to Yuanzhe for passing his PhD thesis defense! Well done 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
SOCRATES EV Workshop and Scientific Symposium 2023
Prof Jiong-Wei Wang is invited as a speaker for SOCRATES EV Workshop and Scientific Symposium which is held at Fusionopolis, Singapore on 16 and 17 March 2023.
Birthday celebration
Birthday celebration for Felix, Liqiang, and Yen 🥳🎉🎂
Farewell to our attachment student, Jasmine
Jasmine Lim, our attachment student from Anglo-Chinese Junior College with Prof Wang. Wish you all the best for your future endeavours.
February 2023
Seminar talk by Prof Czarny Bertrand Marcel Stanislas from Nanyang Technological University
Thank you Prof Czarny Bertrand Marcel Stanislas from Nanyang Technological University for giving us an inspirational seminar talk on “Bacterial extracellular vesicles for treatment of infectious disease and cancer”. All of the participants gain meaningful insights from the talk.
Birthday celebration
Birthday celebration for Charles and Roma 🎉🎂
Fred’s PhD Thesis Defense
Congratulations to Fred for the successful PhD thesis defense. We are proud of you. Well done 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Poster Presentation by interns
Well done to both our interns (from left : Roma Anne Louise, Chew Lok Yee) who presented their research on atherosclerosis and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis during their laboratory attachment.
Surgery Staff Appreciation Lunch 2023
Department of Surgery organized a sumptuous lunch in appreciation for all the hard work. Food was great, it was an enjoyable gathering!
January 2023
Chinese New Year Celebration
We have Yu-Sheng for the celebration of Chinese New Year. Cheers to a greater 2023🍊🍊🧧
December 2022
Farewell dinner for Fred
Farewell dinner for Fred, who have graduated for his PhD and will be leaving to Shanghai for his career in pharmaceutical research. We will miss him dearly and wish him all the best for his future endeavours. Keep in touch!
A gift (cardigan with NUS logo) for Fred. Thankful and blessed to have him in our group, we wish him a bright future ahead!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Birthday celebration
Last birthday celebration for year 2022. Celebrating Michelle’s birthday 🎉🎂
November 2022
CNA documentary series : The Nanomedicine TRP – Milk as medicine for gut diseases
Prof Jiong-Wei Wang and Zhang Sitong, our PhD student working on the milk as medicine for gut diseases project were featured in Channel News Asia documentary series. Click here for the CNA interview video 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Birthday celebration
Celebrating our research fellow, Dr. Lai Yanqiu’s birthday 🎉🎂
October 2022
Birthday celebration
(From the left) : Happy blessed birthday to Dr. Pei Peng, Prof Jiong-Wei Wang and Hou Xiao 🎉🎂🥳
September 2022
2022 NUS ncRNA symposium & Liquid Biopsy Summit
Prof Jiong-Wei Wang is invited to be a speaker in NUS ncRNA Symposium and Liquid Biopsy Summit from 20th – 22nd September 2022 which is organized by Precision Medicine TRP in collaboration with N2CR and MiRXES. The talk is on the interesting topic of whether miRNAs in milk extracellular vesicles are oral therapeutics for gut inflammation.
NUSMed Surgery Safety Day 2022
NUSMed Department of Surgery Safety Day which was held on 16th September 2022 is an educational program with the safety and health related talks about fire safety, internal audit, spill response, stress and mental wellness at the workplace. We also did outdoor walk activity, participating in enjoyable quiz competitions, prizes for the winners, and ended the day with a delightful dinner.
Birthday celebration
It is Fred’s and Nilofer’s birthday celebration. Happy birthday to both of you 🎂🥳
August 2022
European Society of Cardiology Congress 2022 Barcelona
26 – 29 August 2022
Fred and Suet Yen’s attended the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2022 Barcelona on 26 to 29 August to present their interesting findings related to cardiovascular disease. Well done to both of them for their impressive presentation.
June 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Tong Lingjun on his PhD graduation!
Congrats, Dr. Tong Lingjun on your PhD graduation. We are proud of you. Dr. Tong is our former PhD exchange student and has been working on the milk extracellular vesicles as the therapy for gut disease.
Team bonding event
We had a wonderful BBQ at Prof Wang’s residence. It is the first gathering we had since the COVID pandemic restriction is lifted. Everyone enjoy the evening with their delicious dinner.
The team behind all the hard work. Thank you guys!
Farewell for high school students attached to our lab
High school students from Hwa Chong International School gave cards to their trainers as a token of appreciation for their guidance during their laboratory attachment. From left : Hui Jun (trainer), Suet Yen (trainer), Li Yuehan (high school student), Zhang Jiawei (high school student), Ethan Lee (high school student), Nilofer (trainer), Charles (trainer), and Michelle (trainer). We are glad to have their presence in our lab. Hope you guys have learnt the fun of science!
Hui Jun demonstrating technical skills of loading DNA samples into agarose gel to the high school students.
From left : Nicole Lim Jia Ying (NUS Medical student ), Syeda Nilofer Sayed (trainer) and Elina Cho (high school student from St. Joseph’s Institution International)
Trainer (Syeda Nilofer Sayed, 2nd year of PhD) with NUS Medical student (Chan Kai En)
Translational Medicine Research Symposium 22′ with Prof Harvey Lodish (MIT) on 3 June 2022
Suet Yen’s abstract on DHA liposomes as a potential treatment for atherosclerosis was accepted for a presentation at Translational Medicine Research Symposium 22′ with Prof Harvey Lodish on 3 June 2022. The symposium was held at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Well done, Yen!
March 2022
Birthday Celebration
Birthday celebration with the March babies 🎉🎂
From left : Felix, Sitong and Suet Yen
February 2022
Lab Lou Yu-Sheng
A great way to kickstart the year, we had Yu-Sheng during the chinese new year. Blessed new year everyone 🎉🎉🎉
2016 to 2020
Welcome dinner for Rawan and Yvonne, our first batch of exchange students. From left : Rawan, Suet Yen, Yvonne, Olga and Prof Wang 👍🏻
Birthday celebration for Olga, Fred and Rawan 🎂
Lab outing
Lab outing with Prof Chris Charles’s group
Food exploration with the team 👍🏻
BBQ lab outing with the team. Food was great, everyone enjoyed the dinner 👍🏻
Lab outing with Prof Gert Storm
Photography session with exchange student from US, Ain and Xavier. From left (first row) : Suet Yen, Prof Wang, Jodi and Ain. From left (second row) : Xiao Yuan, Fred, Michael, Xavier, Brandon and Olga.
Photography session at North Core, MD6, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS
Christmas celebration with Prof Chris Charles’s group. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 🎄🎅🏻
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