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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.
The primary focus of this Fellowship is to foster the creation
of a small pool of clinician-scientists in Singapore who are comfortable
in basic or translational research as well as clinical medicine.
The Fellowship offers a two-year overseas laboratory training and
supports up to 10 clinicians annually for overseas research training
in reputed universities/institutions.
Dr Tong will be attached to the Ocular Surface Center, Baylor College
of Medicine, Texas for two years. His research title at the Ocular
Surface Center is "Molecular Pathophysiology of Inflammation
and Angiogenesis in the Ocular Surface" under the supervisorship
of Professor of Ophthalmology, Stephen C. Pflugfelder, M.D. and
James and Margaret Elkins Chair, Baylor College of Medicine.
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