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Department of Biomedical Engineering
National University of Singapore
The TTE group leverages bioengineering tools to engineer in vitro and ex vivo tumors for personalized drug testing
April 2024 - Dr. Fong has been awarded the College of Design and Engineering Outstanding Early Career Award!
March 2024 - Our work on maintaining tumor explants using bioengineered hydrogels is featured on The Straits Times and NUS News! https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/s-pore-scientists-create-way-to-preserve-cancer-tumour-cultures-for-better-targeted-drug-testing and https://news.nus.edu.sg/singapore-scientists-develop-new-platform-that-significantly-reduces-drug-testing-and-screening-time-for-cancer-patients/
November 2023 - Kanishka has been awarded TERMIS-AP 2023 SYIS Best Poster Presentation!
March 2023 - We have been awarded the prestigious NMRC-OF Individual Research Grant!! See news here.
March 2023 - Check out our new review paper on leveraging technologies to revive patient-derived tumor explant cultures! Link here.
May 2022 - Our work on recapitulating cancer-endothelial crosstalk using organoids and engineered hydrogels has been featured by NUS News! Link here.
April 2022 - Our work on recapitulating cancer-endothelial crosstalk using organoids and engineered hydrogels is now online at Biomaterials! Link here.
April 2022 - We have just been awarded the 2021 MOE AcRF Tier 2 research grant!
Dec 2021 - The special issue that Dr. Fong co-edited in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews is now done! Next Generation in vitro Tumor Models Guiding Cancer Therapy -- preface here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169409X21004403?dgcid=author
July 2021 - Dr. Eliza Fong is featured under Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigator; read more here: https://blogs.rsc.org/bm/2021/07/05/biomaterials-science-emerging-investigator-eliza-fong/?doing_wp_cron=1625645766.0538840293884277343750
June 2021 - We are excited that our review article 'Engineering Stromal Heterogeneity in Cancer' is now in press in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews!! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169409X21001915
May 2021 - Our review article 'Hot or Cold: Bioengineering Immune Contextures into In Vitro Patient-Derived Tumor Models' is now in press in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews!! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169409X21001575
Jan 2021 - Our review article on 'Hydrogels to Engineer the Tumor Microenvironment' has just been featured in Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigators 2021 theme issue! Biomaterials Science, 2021,
DOI: 10.1039/D0BM01943G
16 July 2020 - Big congrats to Omer for successfully proposing and passing his Ph.D. thesis with flying colors!!!
Congrats to Kanishka who was awarded TERMIS-AP SYIS Best Poster Presentation!
Growing liver cancer patient-derived xenograft cells using 3D scaffolds
Dr. Eliza Fong: L’ORÉAL For Women In Science Singapore National Fellowship 2019 Runner-Up (Physical and Engineering Sciences)
Dr. Eliza Fong nominated for Singapore Women's Weekly Great Women of Our Time 2018
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