The Office of Duke-NUS Affairs is proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 Duke-NUS Travel Grants.
Duke-NUS Medical School recently awarded travel grants to nine Duke University faculty members in support of academic visits to Singapore, deepening the long-standing partnership between the two institutions. The initiative aims to foster cross-campus collaboration in research, education and innovation in academic medicine.
The awardees will travel to Singapore to explore collaborative research opportunities with Duke-NUS faculty, strengthening research in basic and translational science, including neuroscience and behavioral disorders, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, emerging infectious diseases and more. Research in clinical sciences will be conducted in collaboration with SingHealth.
- Shruti Agashe, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery
- Samrat Umasankar Das, MD, Professor of Pediatrics
- Maragatha (Maggie) Kuchibhatla PhD, Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Center for Aging
- Ozanan Meireles, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery
- Kevin Wiehe, PhD, Director of Research and Computational Biology, Duke Human Vaccine Institute
- Kevin O’Neil Saunders, PhD, Norman L. Letvin Distinguished Professor in Surgery, Duke Human Vaccine Institute
- Katherine Ramos, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Eva Aimable Naumann, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
- Junfeng (Jim) Zhang, PhD, Professor of Global and Environmental Health, Duke Global Health Institute
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