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• 2 October 2025: Congratulations Mingyuan for through her PhD Qaulifying Examination 👏🏻👍🏻
• 30 September 2025: Congratulations Xiaodong for the publishing on Science Advances 👏🏻👍🏻
• 23 June 2025: Congratulations Suet Yen for successfully defended her PhD Thesis 👏🏻👍🏻
• 20 June 2025: Congratulations Wenhui for passing through her PhD Qaulifying Examination 👏🏻👍🏻
• 26 May 2025 : Congratulations Nilofer for successfully defended her PhD Thesis 👏🏻👍🏻
• 25 April 2025 : Congratulations Sitong for successfully defended her PhD Thesis 👏🏻👍🏻
• 19 – 21 February 2025 : CRSingapore 2025 has been a success, bringing together experts from around the world to advance delivery science. Congratulations to Suet Yen for winning the oral award 👏🏻👍🏻
• 03 December 2024 : Congratulations to Pei Peng for the publication in Advanced Materials Technologies👏👍
• 01 December 2024 : Congratulations to Lingjun for the publication in Biomaterials👏👍
• 11 November 2024 : Our new study showing the effectiveness of nanoparticles in diagnosing and treating plaque in arteries was featured in The Straits Times 👏🏻👍🏻 The Straits Times : Effectiveness of nanoparticles in diagnosing and treating plaque in arteries
• 27 August 2024 : Congratulations to Yuanzhe, Suet Yen, Hui Jun, Xichuan, Liqiang, Sitong, Pei Peng, Hou Xiao, Xinyi and Fred for the publication in Small 👏🏻👍🏻
• 6 June 2024 : Congratulations to Sitong, Lingjun and the team for their manuscript “Gut-Liver Axis : Potential Mechanisms of Action of Food-derived Extracellular Vesicles” accepted for publication in Journal of Extracellular Vesicles 👏🏻👍🏻
• 10 May 2024 : Congratulations to Suet Yen, Yanqiu and Sitong for their abstracts being accepted to present at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2024 in London 👏🏻👍🏻
• 9 April 2024 : Chinese delegation from the Singapore Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China (SingCham) visit to Centre for Nanomedicine
• 27 March 2024 : Congratulations to Nilofer for her abstract being accepted for #EASLCongress 2024 in Milan, Italy and winning the Young Investigator bursary 👏🏻👍🏻
• 7-8 March 2024 : Congratulations to Sitong and Haining 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 2024 👏🏻👍🏻
• 10 January 2024 : An inspiring talk by Prof Randy Schekman, 2013 Nobel laureate for his extracellular vesicle work, co-organized with Prof Minh Le’s group in NUS.
• 10 October 2023 : Congratulations to Felix for being selected to present his work at the Clinical Nanomedicine 2023 : Fulfilling the Global Potential which is held at Basel, Switzerland 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
• 12 September 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 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
• 8 August 2023 : Congratulations to Prof Wang, Prof Storm and Yen for their research to be featured on National University of Singapore’s website 👏👏👏 New treatment method reduces size and increases stability of atherosclerotic plaque on arterial walls, preventing heart diseases: NUS study
• 28 June 2023 : Congratulations to Yen for her new publication accepted in Journal of Controlled Release👏👏👏
• 5 May 2023 : 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
• 21 April 2023 : Our research (published in Science Advances) was covered by CNA LIFESTYLE (Channel NewsAsia) and many others!!!
• 21 April 2023 : Farewell to Xian Yan and Sabrina, we wish you all the best in your future endeavours.
• 3 April 2023 : Congratulations to Prof Wang for receiving the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Young Researcher of the Year Award for 2023!!! 👏👏👏
• 30 March 2023 : Congratulations to Yuanzhe for passing his PhD defense! Well done 👏👏👏
• 16 – 17 March 2023 : Prof Jiong-Wei Wang is invited as a speaker for SOCRATES EV Workshop and Scientific Symposium which is held at Fusionopolis, Singapore.
• 1 March 2023 : Congratulations to Lingjun and Sitong for their work accepted in Science Advances 👏👏👏👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
• 1 March 2023 : Congratulations Suet Yen for giving an oral presentation at Cardiovascular Research Institute SAB Meeting 👏👏👍🏻👍🏻
• 28 February 2023 : Welcome our new attachment student, Jasmine from Anglo-Chinese Junior College.
• 24 February 2023 : Thank you Prof Czarny Bertrand Marcel Stanislas from Nanyang Technological University for giving us an inspirational talk on “Bacterial extracellular vesicles for treatment of infectious disease and cancer”.
• 23 February 2023 : Congratulations to Fred for the successful PhD thesis defense. Well done!
• 14 February 2023 : Welcome Xian Yan to the group. She is an exchange Master Student from University of Macau
• 13 February 2023 : Congratulations to Felix, Hui Jun and Sitong for their work published in ACS Nano 👏👏👏 click here for publication
• 21 January 2023 : Welcome Hao Haining to the group. She is an exchange PhD Student from Ocean University of China.
• 6 January 2023 : Congratulations Cheng Han for his excellent work freshly accepted at Cell Metabolism👏👏👏
• 25 December 2022 : Congratulations Brandon and all lab members who contributed to this nice piece of work, accepted and published on the Christmas Day 2022👏👏👏 click here for publication
• 20 December 2022 : Welcome Dr. Yang Liqiang, our research fellow to the group.
• 16 December 2022 : Farewell to Fred, our PhD student who he is leaving for his career in pharmaceutical field in Shanghai, China. We wish him all the best 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
• 16 November 2022 : Prof Jiong-Wei Wang and Zhang Sitong were featured in CNA documentary series representing NUS Medicine, Nanomedicine TRP on the topic – Milk as Medicine for Gut Disease 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 click here for CNA interview video
• 2 November 2022 : Congratulations to Nilofer for passing her PQE examination. Well done!👏👏👏
• 25 October 2022 : Congratulations to Sitong for passing her PQE examination. Well done!👏👏👏
• 14 October 2022 : Congratulations Suet Yen for passing her PQE examination. Well done!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
• 5 October 2022 : Welcome Dr. Lai Yanqiu, our research fellow to the group.
• September 2022 : Well done to Lingjun and Sitong for their work on Extracellular vesicles as a novel photosensitive drug delivery system for enhanced photodynamic therapy being accepted in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 click here for publication
• 20 to 22 September 2022 : Prof Jiong-Wei Wang is invited to be a speaker on the interesting topic of whether miRNAs in milk extracellular vesicles are oral therapeutics for gut inflammation, in NUS ncRNA Symposium and Liquid Biopsy Summit from 20^th – 22^nd September 2022 which is organized by Precision Medicine TRP in collaboration with N2CR and MiRXES.
• 7 September 2022 : Welcome Vaarsha, our research assistant to the group.
• 26 to 29 August 2022 : Congratulations to Fred and Suet Yen for their impressive presentation on cardiovascular disease in European Society of Cardiology Congress 2022 Barcelona on 26 to 29 August 2022. 👏👏👏
• August 2022 : Congratulations to Bo Lou, Olga and Hui Jun for their work on “Modulating albumin-mediated transport of peptide-drug conjugates for antigen-specific Treg induction” published in Journal of Control Release. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 click here for publication
• August 2022 : Congratulations Felix for his review on “Ceramide de novo synthesis in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: Pathogenic mechanisms and therapeutic perspectives” being accepted in Biochemical Pharmacology. Well done!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 click here for publication
• 25 July 2022 : Welcome the students from Temasek Polytechnic, Roma and Lok Yee
• 15 June 2022 : Congratulations to Dr. Tong Lingjun on his PhD graduation 👨🏻‍🎓. Dr. Tong is our former PhD exchange student and has been working on the milk extracellular vesicles as the therapy for gut disease.👏👏👏
• 1 June 2022 : Welcome the high school students from Hwa Chong International School (Ethan Lee, Li Yuehan, Zhang Jiawei) and St. Joseph’s Institution International (Elina Cho)
• 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.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
• 12 May 2022 : Congratulations to Lingjun for being awarded for his PhD work on gut disease. 👏👏👏
• 19 April 2022 : Congratulations to Brandon for being awarded Chia Boon Lock Cardiology Medal and Prize for LDL-EV project. Well done!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
• 19 April 2022 : Welcome Nicole, our medical student who will be working closely with Suet Yen.
• 1 March 2022 : Great welcome to our new Research Fellow, Dr. Pei Peng and
• 3 September 2021 : Well done Suet Yen and Olga for their work on “Tissue factor cytoplasmic domain exacerbates post-infarct left ventricular remodeling via orchestrating cardiac inflammation and angiogenesis” published in Theranostics.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 click here for publication
• October 2020 : Congratulations to Fred for his review on “Extracellular vesicles in cardiovascular diseases” being accepted in Advances in Clinical Chemistry. 👏👏👏 click here for publication
• July 2019 : Congratulations to Suet Yen, Fred and Olga for publishing review on “Extracellular Vesicles in Cardiovascular Diseases: Alternative Biomarker Sources, Therapeutic Agents, and Drug Delivery Carriers” in Internaltional Journal of Molecular Sciences. 👏👏👏 click here for publication