Overview

Research Programmes

The Division of Cellular & Molecular Research is an active research group within the National Cancer Centre, Singapore. Although research in the Division encompasses very diverse questions of human cancers and uses a wide variety of approaches, experimental systems, and techniques, we are bonded together through our interest in understanding fundamental biological questions at the level of how molecules and genes act and interact to accomplish highly complex, intra-and inter-cellular processes. The Division now has five Principal Investigators and two senior scientists. Most of the Division’s Principal Investigators and senior scientists hold adjunct appointments or affiliations with local and/or overseas universities and thus reflecting the Division’s effort to be a premier academic research centre.

Education is structured within our Division. The Division currently has 10 graduate students and 9 postdoctoral fellows. The Division also has 14 clinical scientists/collaborators. Total full-time staff is 56. This large diverse population creates a synergistic environment where one feels part of a dynamic scientific research family and where ideas and knowledge are shared easily. The objective of the Division is to equip future researchers with the skills to work at the boundaries between discovery and applied research in the prevention, control and early diagnosis of human cancers.

The majority of the research laboratories of the Division locates on Level Six of the National Cancer Centre and therefore is in close proximity to the clinics within the National Cancer Centre. The result is a collegial, collaborative and productive scientific and clinical research environment to forge our commitment into research programs in translational biomedical science within the Division. The Division’s interests are wide-ranging and encompass basic mechanistic studies in molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, cell biology, immunology and other cancer-related fields. The Division also engages in translational research projects that focus on testing the applicability of scientific discoveries to clinical problems. These projects involve the testing of basic research discoveries with patients, patient material, patient data, or model systems with direct clinical relevance and/or application.