Cancer Science Institute plans to expand

SINGAPORE: The Cancer Science Institute (CSI) of Singapore has just turned one and plans to add 12 more principal investigators to its current faculty strength of 19, in a boost for cancer research in Singapore.

The new hires will come from across the world, with diversity the key to creating an international centre, CSI director Daniel G. Tenen said at its inaugural conference about cancer science.

A graduate programme will also be ready "very soon", and the centre plans to move into another building in the National University of Singapore.

Since its launch, CSI Singapore has published over 100 papers in peer—reviewed journals and is working closely with National University Health System clinicians and researchers on diseases like stomach cancer and leukaemia.

The S$256m centre is one of four Research Centres of Excellence set up by the Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation to boost university research.

A selection council is evaluating proposals for a fifth centre, to be decided by early 2010.

— TODAY