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"NTU receives S$30 million Competitive Research Programme grants

07-Jul-2009


Three proposals from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have won up to S$30 million in research fund from the National Research Foundation (NRF) following its fourth call for proposals under its Competitive Research Programme (CRP) Funding Scheme. Since the inaugural CRP grant call was launched on 16 April 2007, NTU has received some S$90 million grants from NRF. This underscores the significant role that the university plays in fuelling Singapore’s drive for research and innovation.

One of the winning proposals is led by Associate Professor Jaume Torres, which aims to develop “tools for rational discovery of novel therapeutics and diagnostics targeting integral membrane proteins”.

Commenting on receiving the funding, Assoc Professor Torres says, “With this funding, we will develop our proposal on membrane proteins, which is one of the most exciting areas of research in biological systems. We do foresee that this will be one of the hottest topics in biomedicine and biotechnology for the next 10 years. We envisage this project will help to position Singapore at the forefront of membrane protein research.”


The CRP Funding Scheme offers substantial funding support of up to S$10 million per proposal, over three to five years. The grant funds a broad base of research programmes through a competitive bottom-up (investigator-led) approach, with submissions assessed by international scientific reviews."


--Excerpts from NTU website.



1. Never saw the 伟大 side of boss before. As far as I know, his aim isn't to discover vaccines that will save mankind, cos "There are so many people in the world, why do we have to save all of them?" Right, I think he's more concerned about over-population and competition haha.

2. Richer not equals we get more/better equipment. Boss is so stingy, no invoice or bill ever escapes his scrutiny.

3. I bet boss won't treat us. He didn't even have a mini-celebration when a paper got accepted into some journal with a higher-than-normal impact rating.

4. I still can't imagine how and why boss got the grant. Always thought our research wasn't groundbreaking in any sense and that our lab would be contented with just publishing papers. In any case, I always thought stuff like cancer would receive more attention. Maybe the idea wasn't novel enough. Membrane proteins is now the hip science of the era. Wahaha. Boss probably just bull-shitted his way through his proposal with great-sounding ideas and bombastic words. I wonder what his ex-boss is thinking now. Lol.

5. 10 million! Omg. Still can't believe it.