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To better understand the causes of human cancer across Asia, thereby improve its detection, treatment and prevention. https://linktr.ee/csi_singapore?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=eed1a145-1fad-49b9-8001-01c8f57309ca
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CSI Singapore is excited to be here on BlueSky! 👋 Read up on cancer research breakthroughs, latest happenings, & events on this space. We hope you stay connected with us on our journey to make significant contributions in cancer research 👨‍🔬

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Congratulations to Prof. Yang Zhang who has received a grant under the RIE 2025 Human Health & Potential Industry Alignment Fund Pre-Positioning for project titled “BioStream: An AI-Enabled Innovative Platform to Streamline the Development of Next Generation Biologics.”

#AIinScience #AIplatform
CSI Singapore would like to welcome onboard Dr. Peter Yeow to our CSI community 👏 His research focus is targeting cancer cell division and TRIM E3 ligases.

Read more about him: csi.nus.edu.sg/researcher/p...

#csisingapore #cancerawareness #cancerresearch #cancerresearchinstitute #cancereducation
The CSI Singapore – @kyotouniversity.bsky.social Joint Symposium 2025 will be taking place from 24 to 26 Nov at NUS.

The symposium will bring together leading researchers from both institutions to exchange insights & foster collaborations in cancer science & biomedical research.

📌Save the date!
🎉We are proud to announce that several of our researchers have been featured in the Top 2% Most Cited Scientists list, a prestigious global database compiled by Stanford University and published by Elsevier.
👏 We celebrate your dedication, innovation, and excellence! #cancerresearch
Today is World Cancer Research Day — a reminder of the importance of research in shaping better treatments and outcomes.

The Straits Times has featured CSI PI, Prof. Chng Wee Joo, for his work in blood cancers like multiple myeloma.

#WorldCancerResearchDay #CancerResearch #HopeThroughScience
📢 Thank you to everyone who joined us at the CSI Core Facilities Roadshow last Wednesday!
Our facilities span across:
🔬 Flow Cytometry
🧬 Genome Engineering
💡 Quantitative Proteomics
🌐 Spatial Biology
📊 Genomics Data Analytics
#CoreFacilities #ResearchSupport #BiomedicalResearch #CancerResearch
Interested in Pursuing a PhD in Cancer Biology? Join us for the CSI Graduate Program Virtual Sharing Session!

Discover opportunities & scholarship available for successful applicants. Hear from current scholars as they share their research experiences.

#CancerResearch #CancerBiology #PhDProgram
Last week, CSI Singapore hosted Dr. Michel Steinmetz from @psich.bsky.social. He spoke on the topic “Microtubule-mediated Signal Transduction and Interactions with Anticancer Drugs”.

#CancerResearch #Oncology #CancerScience #OncologyResearch #Microtubules #SignalTransduction #CancerBiology
🚀 Discover how CSI Core Facilities can power your research. Join us and see the difference! #Research #Science #BiomedicalResearch #CancerResearch
A huge THANK YOU to everyone for an amazing afternoon at Timezone for the annual CSI Staff Party! 🥳

Your energy, laughter, and team spirit lit up the arcade and turned it into a celebration to remember.

Check out CSI Singapore's Facebook page for the photos and videos under 'Albums' 🤩
🚨 Program update!
Frontiers in Cancer Science 2025 is just 2 months away — Nov 5–7 at NUS, Singapore.
🎤 Global experts
🧬 Cutting-edge sessions
🔗 Learn more and register (if you haven’t already): csi.nus.edu.sg/fcs

Refer to our website for the full program drop!
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Last week, CSI Singapore hosted Dr. Makoto Hayashi, from Kyoto University / @ifomresearch.bsky.social. He spoke on the topic “The Mechanism of Mitotic Arrest Dependent Telomere Deprotection”.
Today, CSI Singapore hosted Dr. Alexia-Ileana Zaromytidou, Chief Editor at Nature Cancer (@nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com) She spoke on the editorial and publishing processes at Nature Cancer and the Nature journals.
We’re proud to share that CSI Singapore Research Fellow, Dr. Jun Liu has been awarded the NMRC Open Fund – Young Individual Research Grant for his project titled “Genome-Wide Antibody-Antigen Interaction Prediction Through Large Language Models.”

#CSISingapore #NMRC #AIinScience #CancerResearch
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Ready to take your research to the next level? Apply now for CSI Postdoctoral Fellowship and unlock new opportunities for growth and discovery! #csisingapore #cancerresearch #cancerbiology #cancerbio #oncology #postdoc
The Diana Koh Breakthroughs in Cancer Learning Series 2025 featured talks by Prof. Goh Boon Cher and Dr. @denniskappei.bsky.social, who made cancer science accessible. Congrats to our Young Innovator Prize & Grant winners!

#CancerResearch #ScienceOutreach #DianaKohSeries #CSISingapore
#FCS2025 is fast approaching!

👇Browse through the stellar speaker lineup for this year and take this opportunity to submit your abstract as deadline has been extended till 28 July! ⏳

🔗https://csi.nus.edu.sg/fcs
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A @csisingapore.bsky.social team showed D-I-Tasser can outperform AlphaFold2/3, elevating high-accuracy protein structure & function predictions. We wonder if this moves us closer to resolving protein–protein complex structure prediction? @natbiotech.nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🚨 Deadline extended: Submit your #FCS2025 abstract by 28 July!
Present your research, meet top cancer scientists, and enjoy early-bird rates.
🏆 Travel award for top oral abstracts
🎖Top poster abstracts eligible for travel awards for #AACR2026.
More info & registration 👉 csi.nus.edu.sg/fcs
Yesterday, CSI had the pleasure of hosting Professor Sarah-Jane Dawson ( @petermaccc.bsky.social, University of Melbourne) for a seminar on “Circulating Tumour DNA: Going Beyond the Cancer Genome.”
Thank you to all who joined us!
Last week, CSI Singapore together with NUS Centre for Cancer Research and A*STAR Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, hosted a symposium with speaker - Prof. Patrick Chinnery, from the UK Medical Research Council. He spoke on the topic “An Evolving Symbiosis: Mitochondria in Health and Disease”.
CSI Singapore joins hands with Dunman Secondary, SG Code Campus, Google Cloud, and IMDA in the *Google AI Accelerator* programme.
We’re preparing future innovators to tackle healthcare challenges with real-world biomedical data and AI tools.
Exciting news from our Director, Professor Ashok Venkitaraman. His lab's groundbreaking findings published in Molecular cell, sheds new light into how BRCA2 acts to suppress carcinogenesis, with implications for cancer prevention and therapy.

🔗 Read the full study: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
BRCA2 C-terminal clamp restructures RAD51 dimers to bind B-DNA for replication fork stability
With detailed structural and molecular analyses, Longo et al. find that the BRCA2 C-terminal TR2, which is a critical cancer therapy resistance factor, reshapes the RAD51 dimer for B-DNA binding that ...
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Targeting transcription factors through an IMiD independent #ZincFingerDomain

By B. H. Liu, M. Liu, D. G. Tenen, L. Chai & colleagues @csisingapore.bsky.social

🗞️ doi.org/10.1038/s443...