EMSS Member: A/Prof Melvin Leow Khee Shing
Research Title: Investigation of Thyroid Peroxidase (TPO) and TSH Receptor to Decipher Structural Homologies to Environmental Antigens – the INTERCEPTOR Study
Year Research Grant Awarded: July 2019
Amount: SGD30,000 over 3 years
EMSS Member: Dr Alvin Tan Wai Kit
Research Title: Apelin as a Biomarker for Sarcopenia in Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus – An Exploratory Study
Year Research Grant Awarded: July 2019
Amount: SGD30,000 over 3 years
EMSS Member: A/Prof Melvin Leow Khee Shing
Research Title: Elucidation of the molecular structure of the catalytic domain of human thyroid peroxidase
Year Research Grant Awarded: July 2017
Amount: SGD30,000 over 3 years
EMSS Member: Dr Lim Su Ping, Brenda
Research Title: Identifying the Clinical Features and Optimal Treatment of “Rapid-Responder” Graves’ Thyrotoxicosis: A Prospective Nested Case Control Study
Year Research Grant Awarded: July 2017
Amount: SGD30,000 over 3 years
EMSS Member: Dr Lim Wei Ying
Research Title: Real-time CGM in women with gestational diabetes mellitus
Year Research Grant Awarded: July 2017
Amount: SGD30,000 over 3 years
EMSS Member: Dr Rajeev Parameswaran
Research Title: Prospective pilot study of tumour associated glycan expression in patients with indeterminate (Bethesda II) thyroid nodules – a multicenter study
Year Research Grant Awarded: July 2017
Amount: SGD30,000 over 3 years
EMSS Member: Dr Khoo Chin Meng
Research Title: Effect of single meal to high fat, high protein or high carbohydrate diet on secretion of gastrointestinal hormones in obese insulin resistance vs lean insulin sensitive healthy subjects
Year Research Grant Awarded: Jan 2015
Amount: SGD30,000 over 3 years
EMSS Member: Dr Rinkoo Dalan
Research Title: Genetic Risk Score Associations with cardiovascular disease in Indian Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) patients: A case-control pilot study
Year Research Grant Awarded: Jan 2015
Amount: SGD30,000 over 3 years
EMSS Member: Dr Lim Su Ping Brenda
Research Title: Identifying clinical features and optimal treatment of “rapid-responder” Graves’ thyrotoxicosis: a prospective nested case-control study
Year Research Grant Awarded: Jan 2015
Amount: SGD30,000 over 3 years
EMSS Member: Dr Yang Peiling Samantha
Research Title: The clinical validation of Thyroseq v2 Next Generation Sequencing Assay for the prediction of thyroid malignancy in thyroid nodules with indeterminate cytology in the Asian population
Year Research Grant Awarded: Jan 2015
Amount: SGD30,000 over 3 years
Papers published from this project:
David L. Steward, MD; Sally E. Carty, MD; Rebecca S. Sippel, MD; Samantha Peiling Yang, MBBS, MRCP, MMed; Julie A. Sosa, MD, MA; Jennifer A. Sipos, MD; James J. Figge, MD, MBA; Susan Mandel, MD, MPH;Bryan R. Haugen, MD; Kenneth D. Burman, MD; Zubair W. Baloch, MD, PhD; Ricardo V. Lloyd, MD, PhD;Raja R. Seethala, MD; William E. Gooding, MS; Simion I. Chiosea, MD; Cristiane Gomes-Lima, MD; Robert L. Ferris, MD, PhD; Jessica M. Folek, MD; Raheela A. Khawaja, MD; Priya Kundra, MD;Kwok Seng Loh, MBBS; Carrie B. Marshall, MD; Sarah Mayson, MD; Kelly L. McCoy, MD; Min En Nga, MBBS;Kee Yuan Ngiam, MBBS, MRCS, MMed; Marina N. Nikiforova, MD; Jennifer L. Poehls, MD; Matthew D. Ringel, MD; Huaitao Yang, Md, PhD; Linwah Yip, MD; Yuri E. Nikiforov, MD, PhD
EMSS Member: A/Prof Melvin Leow Khee Shing
Research Title: Exploring the Role of epigenetic mechanisms in the tempora regulation of TSH gene expression in thyrotoxicosis and hypothyroidism
Year Research Grant Awarded: Dec 2010
Amount: SGD20,000 over 3 years
Papers published from this project:
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