Far from a regular desk-bound job, a career in medical research can entail being at the forefront of trending topics. For research associates Tan Hwee Cheng, 57, and Summer Zhang, 33, their work in the Laboratory of Dengue Virology, Immunity & Pathogenesis at the Duke-NUS Medical School involves better ...
Let’s get the elephant out of the room. I enjoy my grocery trips to the supermarket, but while I’ve noticed supermarket staff restocking items and unpacking new cartons of products on occasion, I’ve never really paid much heed to what they do. That was until I experienced what it ...
Perhaps it is the fact that she has been exposed to the Healthcare sector since young, or that her mother is a nurse, that has kindled an effervescent interest in biomedical science for 20-year old Loraine Ng.
“When I came into the army I found a new vision; what I really wanted to be, cause you got to do something you really like. When you’re doing something you really like, then you can go all the way out.” A true force of positive energy to be around, ...
For My First Skool Senior Teacher Nurhamizah Salehudin, going back to the books is almost second nature.
In the two years that design engineer Reese Wong has worked at iPtec, he’s had to pour in many hours researching the latest updates across the vast medical landscape
“A green building is one that consumes as little resources, ideally it is self-sustaining (in terms of water and energy), and does not take away the ability of future generations to sustain themselves,”
“I took a semester off; sourced my own internship, and this summer I’m going for another.” It’s not every day that you run into someone who clearly knows what he wants in life and has no qualms in taking the road less travelled to achieve it – much less ...
“The art of building trails in such a sustainable manner is still something that’s very new around the world. A lot of the techniques we’re using are still very experimental and we’re adapting to new developments to push the envelope as we go along.”
“I understand what it entails going to a different country, to try to settle in and to learn a foreign language. When you don’t have family support, it becomes very difficult. I myself am a migrant worker. Just because I have a higher paying job doesn’t make me anything ...