Duke-NUS Invites Duke Faculty to Collaborate on Research

By Rikki Camarillo
Image: Blue and orange banner. Text: 2026 Duke-Duke-NUS Travel Grants. Logo: Office of Duke-NUS Affairs

Collaboration fuels scientific discovery, and Duke faculty have a unique opportunity to take their research further through the Duke-Duke-NUS Travel Grant Program.

Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS) is now accepting grant applications from Duke investigators interested in visiting Singapore and collaborating with Duke-NUS and SingHealth faculty on health and biomedical research projects.

The program fosters cross-campus collaboration across signature basic science research programs at Duke-NUS and academic clinical sciences in partnership with SingHealth.

Last year’s grant recipients represented a diverse spectrum of specialties and research areas, highlighting the interdisciplinary value of the collaboration between Duke and Duke-NUS. Awardees included clinicians and scientists whose expertise spans neurology and pediatrics, biostatistics and bioinformatics, psychiatry, surgery, computational biology, neurobiology, and global and environmental health.

Last year's awardees included: 

  • 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

This is a fully funded opportunity that includes round-trip airfare from Durham to Singapore, five nights of accommodations, a daily per diem, and more. 

Applicants must submit an online application by 11:59 p.m. EST March 6, 2026.

Those interested in learning more about Duke-Duke-NUS Travel Grants are encouraged to visit the Office of Duke-NUS Affairs website for program details, including eligibility, application requirements, and submission timelines. 

For additional information, please contact Evan Dorner at evan.dorner@duke.edu.

 

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