At SingHealth’s Office of Research, we are committed to creating and applying new knowledge to advance our health, so that we can continue to provide quality healthcare that is affordable and accessible to all our patients. Our focus is excellence, nurturing those who seek it and rewarding those who achieve it. We support our scientists and researchers to realise their discoveries through our investment in translational and clinical research. Supporting the national biomedical sciences agenda, our Clinician Scientists and Clinician Investigators work in a robust clinical research environment that furthers discoveries of new drugs, medical devices and cutting-edge technologies. Through such discoveries and innovations, we aim to be a globally acclaimed academic research centre at the cutting-edge of medical science, integrated in a comprehensive health services organisation, offering the highest quality of advanced care to all Singaporeans. The OoR comprises of a faculty of internationally qualified medical specialists and offers a range of support services as well as well-equipped research facilities, featuring advanced diagnostic and treatment medical technology.

OoR Services

Since its formation in late 2001, the OoR has implemented a series of initiatives to assist staff with their research needs. The department is currently providing the following services:

• Research Grants Administration
• Grant Application Consultation Services
• Funding Opportunities for Research Grants and Awards
• Management of Intellectual Properties
• Research Training and Seminars
• Management of SingHealth Tissue Repository
• Mentor Link-up
• Research Facilities Management
• Online Library Subscription

OoR Research Facilities

Located at 7 Hospital Drive, Outram Campus, the SingHealth research facilities occupy a space of around 6,800 square metres at the former School of Nursing (Block A and C).

Research conducted here falls into the following broad areas: cognitive neuroscience, neurobiology, tissue engineering, haematopoietic stem cell research, multiple myeloma, gene structure and expression, metabolic endocrinology, and molecular carcinogenesis.

Advancing Medicine Through Integrated Research

By 2010, the multi-purpose research facilities at the new Singapore General Hospital Pathology Building will consolidate our existing and future activities solely to pursue innovative translational and clinical (bench-to-bedside) research. Currently, our most comprehensive and well-integrated programmes – oncology, ophthalmology, neurosciences and cardiology – are disease-centric.

Our research initiatives will cut across these signature programmes in the form of five ‘virtual’, group-wide focal points in the areas of: experimental medicine and molecular therapeutics, regenerative and advanced cell therapy, advanced bio-imaging, clinical trials and personalised medicine.

Through the co-location of teams of like-minded researchers and clinicians from SingHealth and our national counterparts, especially Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore, we will achieve critical mass, synergies and complementarities in order to help transform the Outram Campus into a vibrant and holistic medical hub.

Download the Press Release on new home for SGH Pathology and SingHealth Research complete with education facilities.