Awards     

Year 2007 

2008 National Outstanding Clinician Scientist Award, Ministry of Health’s Inaugural National Medical Excellence Award Ceremony
Prof Donald T.H. Tan, Director, Singapore Eye Research Institute

2008 StaR Investigator Award, National Medical Research Council, Ministry of Health
Prof Wong Tien Yin, Assoc Director, International Activities, Singapore Eye Research Institute

2007 Achievement Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology, USA
Prof Wong Tien Yin, Assoc Director, International Activities, Singapore Eye Research Institute

2007 AMGEN Medical Research of the Year Award for “Outstanding Contribution to Translational Research”; Australian Society of Medical Research
Prof Wong Tien Yin, Assoc Director, International Activities, Singapore Eye Research Institute

SingHealth Group CEO Excellence Award in Research (Open Category), 2007
Prof Wong Tien Yin, Assoc Director, International Activities, Singapore Eye Research Institute

Alcon Research Institute Award for "Outstanding Contributions to Ophthalmology and Vision Science”; 26th Alcon Research Institute Symposium at Fort Worth, Texas; February 2007
Prof Wong Tien Yin, Assoc Director, International Activities, Singapore Eye Research Institute

2008 Clinician Scientist Award, National Medical Research Council, Ministry of Health
A/Prof Aung Tin, Assoc Director, Education & Training, SERI

Nakajima Award from the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology for “Outstanding Contribution to Research in Ophthalmology”, 2007
A/Prof Aung Tin, Assoc Director, Education & Training, SERI

2007 Achievement Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology, USA
A/Prof Chee Soon Phaik, Head, Ocular Inflammation & Immunology Services, SNEC

Best Reviewer Award, International Ophthalmology, 200
A/Prof Chee Soon Phaik, Head, Ocular Inflammation & Immunology Services, SNEC

International Travel Grants, ARVO 2007, Fort Lauderdale, USA, May 2007
“Modification of Human Amniotic Membrane as a Carrier for Stem Cell Transplantation”
Dr J. S. Mehta, Consultant, Corneal Service, Singapore Eye Research Institute

International Travel Grants, ARVO 2007, Fort Lauderdale, USA, May 2007
“Comparing Angle Closure Detected by Gonioscopy and Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography”
Dr L.M. Sakata, Clinical Research Fellow, Singapore Eye Research Institute

International Travel Grants, ARVO 2007, Fort Lauderdale, USA, May 2007
“Predictors of Visual Impairment in an Urban Malay Population: The Singapore Malay Eye Study (SiMES)”

Year 2006              

CONGRATULATIONS

42nd Annual Meeting of the European Association for the study of Diabetes (EASD), Copenhagen, 14 – 17 Sept 2006

A/Prof Wong Tien Yin - Novartis Young Investigator’s Award
Awarded for the significant achievements in researching diabetes risk and management.

SGH 15th Annual Scientific Meeting, 22 April 2006

Dr Eranga Vithana – Best Oral Paper (Scientist)
Award:
The identification and characterization of the gene
responsible for autosomal recessive congenital
hereditary dystrophy (CHED2)

American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
Meeting (ASCRS), 17-22 March 2006

Prof Donald Tan – Best Paper of Session: Cornea: Orthokeratology, Tissue, Presbyopia

Dr Leonard Ang Pek Kiang was awarded the Singapore National Academy of Science Young Scientist Award in September 2005 for his research on ocular stem cells, bioengineering of eye tissues and ocular surface transplantation for the treatment of eye disease. Dr Ang was the only recipient in the medical field among the 9 National Science and Technology award winners for the year. Dr Ang is also the first ophthalmologist in Singapore to receive this award.

American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Meeting
16 – 20 April 2005

                               

Assoc Prof Donald Tan - First Prize in the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery 2004 Film Festival

New Techniques – A tooth for an eye: The Osteo-Odonto Keratoprosthesis

CONGRATULATIONS

“Best Poster” Award - Localisation of lesions in multiple evanescent white dot syndrome with mf-erg and icga.

Dr Bobby Cheng on receiving the “Best Poster” Award for his poster presented at the Sixth International Symposium on Uveitis, 20 – 22 September 2004 at Venezia-Mestre ( Italy )

Eberhard Dodt Award 2004

Chi Luu, PhD on receiving the Eberhard Dodt Award at the 42nd International Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision (ISCEV) Symposium in Puerto Rico. The title of the presentation “retinal function in myopic adults and children”. 14-18 November 2004

‘THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CONJUNCTIVAL EQUIVALENT WITH IMPROVED PROLIFERATIVE PROPERTIES USING A MULTISTEP SERUM-FREE CULTURE SYSTEM FOR CLINICAL TRANSPLANTATION”

CONFERMENT OF DEGREE
Our congratulations to Mdm Lisa Cha Yeon Lang and Mrs Noor Shabana on being conferred the degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY.

Our congratulations to Dr Wong Tien Yin, Assoc Director, SERI, for the following outstanding achievements in the Year 2004

Dr Wong Tien Yin, Assoc Director, SERI
Asst Prof, National University of Singapore, Ophthalmology Department

1. Young Investigator Award, Asia Pacific Society of Hypertension, Annual Congress, March 2004
    
2. Outstanding Researcher of the Year 2004 Award, National University of Singapore
    
3. Sandra Daugherty Award for Excellence in Cardiovascular and Hypertension Epidemiology, American Heart Association, USA

Congratulations to our Director, Assoc Prof Donald Tan for receiving the following awards at the 2004 - American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Meeting

1. Best Paper of Session
   Cornea: Keratoplasty - Autologous Cultivated Conjunctival Transplantation for Pterygium Surgery
   
   
   
2. Runner-up in the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery 2004 Film Festival
   New Techniques - Deep Lamellar Keratoplasty for Severe Gonococcal Keratitis
   
      

1. Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology
   
   Dr Wong Tien Yin, Assoc Director, SERI
   Asst Prof, National University of Singapore, Ophthalmology Department
   1. Outstanding Service in Prevention of Blindness Award
      
      
2. SGH 14th Annual Scientific Meeting, SIngapore
   26-27 September 2003
   
   Dr Leonard Ang, Registrar SNEC
   1. Clinical - Young Investigator Award
      Development of an autologous serum-free cultivated conjunctival equivalent for clinical transplantation - A new treatment modality for ocular surface diseases
      
      
   2. Best Free Paper (2nd)
      Serum Free cultivation of human conjunctival epithelial cells - The development of a new culture method for ocular surface epithelial cells
      
      
3. XXI Congress of the EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT & REFRACTIVE SURGEONS,
   Munich, Germany,
   6-11 September 2003-10-23
   
   
   1. Dr Tat-Keong Chan, Consultant SNEC
      Won the prize for the Best Cataract Poster of the Congress
      with a poster entitled "Nested-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the rapid detection of microbes implicated in infectious endophthalmitis"
      
      
   2. ESCRS/ ALCON Annual Video Festival
      Dr Lim Li, Consultant SNEC
      Won the THIRD prize for the New Contributors Category
      His video is entitled "Combined lamellar and penetrating keratoplasty in the treatment of interstitial keratitis with peripheral corneal thinning"
      
      
4. Dr Louis-M Tong Hak Tien, Registrar of SNEC, Clinical Tutor, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, was one of six scholars to receive the Biomedical Fellowship launched in July 2003 by A*STAR...
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1. Dr Eric Yap Peng Huat
   Winner Of The Ministerial Citation 2002
   
   
2. 20th Singapore-Malaysia Joint Meeting in Ophthalmology in conjunction with The 4th Singapore National Eye Research Meeting, Singapore , 24 -26 May 2002
   
   1. Dr Leonard Ang, Registrar SNEC
      Visual Science - Oustanding Award
      Serum free cultivation of conjunctival epitheliah cells and its use in an in vitro reconstructed human conjunctival equivalent
      
      
   2. Ms Amutha Barathi, Research Assistant, SERI
      Visual Science - Merit Award
      Experimental model of myopia in mice
      
      
   3. Ms Weon Sung Rhan, Research Assistant, SERI
      Visual Science - Merit Award
      Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChR) are involved regulation of mice sclera fibroblast (SF) proliferation
      
      
   4. Dr Bobby Cheng, Registrar SNEC
      Clinical Ophthalmology - Merit Award
      A study of morphology, clinical grading and flora of blepharitis in asymptomatic Asian eyes
      
      
   5. Ms Angela Cheng, Clinical Research Officer, SERI
      Optometry/Paramedical - Outstanding Award
      Height and its relationship to refraction and biometry parameters in Singapore Chinese children
      
      
      
3. ARVO Annual Meeting, Ft Lauderdale, 5 - 10 May 2002
   
   
   1. Dr Leonard Ang, Registrar SNEC
      Santen Pharmaceutical Travel Fellowship Award
      
      
   2. Dr Saw Seang Mei, Head, Epidemiology Research Group, SERI
      Gesine-Mohn Travel Fellowship Award
      
      
      

1. 19th Malaysian-Singapore Ophthalmology Congress
   15th - 17th June 2001
   
   Dr Mohamad Rosman
   Best Poster Award for Trainees
   Primary Angle-Closure Glaucoma : Long Term Clinical Course In A North American Population And Comparison With An Asian Population
   
   
   
2. 2001 The Eye Institute-Pharmacia Research Prize
   
   Dr Chan Tat Keong
   Outstanding Original Paper
   Endogenous Bacterial Endophthalmitis : An East Asian Experience and a Reappraisal of a severe Ocular Affliction
   
   
   
3. ARVO Annual Meeting, Ft Lauderdale, 29 April - 4 May 2001
   
   
   1. Ms Lisa Cha, PhD, Student, Singapore Eye Research Institute
      Chew Sek Jin Award
      Outstanding Myopia Research
      
      
   2. Dr Chua Wei Han, Medical Officer, Singapore National Eye Centre
      Gesine-Mohn Travel Fellowship Award
      
      
   3. Dr Aung Tin, Assoc Consultant, Singapore National Eye Centre
      Santen Pharmaceutical Travel Fellowship Award