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Dr. Ari SADANANDOM I am the director of the Durham Centre for Crop Improvement Technology and Reader (Associate Professor) at the University of Durham, UK. In my relatively young career as a plant biologist I had the privilege of discovering novel genes and mechanisms in plant stress biology that go beyond the state of art. This discovery process has allowed me to develop an instinct for identifying and revealing new facets of fundamental...

Svetlana Klessova is Director and senior consultant at inno TSD, Sophia Antipolis, France. Svetlana started her research career as visiting research fellow at Harvard University in 1990 and then moved into innovation consultancy. She has 20+ years of experience in project management, innovation policies, technology commercialization, entrepreneurship and in international R...

Professor Annelies Wilder-Smith’s research focus over the past 15 years has been dengue. She was the Principal Investigator for the adult cohort in a Phase 2b trial for the chimeric dengue vaccine in Singapore. Furthermore, she is the Lead Principal Investigator of DengueTools, a large international research consortium funded by the European Commission (www.denguetools.net). With a career spanning over two decades, she has led and co-led various...

In 2011, the Singapore government signed a cooperation agreement with the European Molecular Biology Organization – or EMBO for short - an organization of more than 1500 leading researchers in Europe and worldwide that promotes excellence in the life sciences. EMBO’s major goals are to support talented researchers at all stages of their careers and to stimulate the exchange of scientific information. Support for EMBO programmes and activities...

In November 2013 Singapore-based scientist Dr Florent Ginhoux became one of 23 researchers, and the only scientist from Asia this year, who was picked for the EMBO Young Investigator programme in 2013. The programme recognises outstanding researchers under 40 years old who are leading their first laboratories, both in Europe and in EMBO cooperation partner countries. Dr Ginhoux is a principal investigator at A*STAR’s Singapore Immunology Network...

About Mangala Srinivas Mangala Srinivas was born in India, moved to Indonesia and then to Singapore, where she completed her B.Sc. (Honours) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). From there, she went to Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA) for her Ph.D. She has since been working at the Department of Tumour Immunology at the Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences in The Netherlands. Mangala’s initial work involved the...

For the innovation network Morgenstadt: City Insights, 12 Fraunhofer Institutes have joined forces. Together with partners from industry and the global urban partners, they develop a systematic insight into promising approaches and innovative strategies on the road to a resource-efficient, intelligent and sustainable city of the future. The project aims at creating insights into currently on-going transformation processes of chosen global cities...

About Wieslaw Nowinski Dr Wieslaw Nowinski is the creator of the “world‘s most gorgeous” human brain atlases. Born and educated in Poland he is currently working as principal scientist and director of A*STAR‘s Biomedical Imaging Lab in Singapore. His research includes brain atlases, stroke, deep brain stimulation, brain quantification, neuroinformatics, medical image processing, virtual reality, computer-assisted diagnosis and treatment, and...

Chikungunya fever is a viral illness that is transmitted to humans by the bites of Aedes mosquitoes causing severe and often incapacitating joint pain in infected patients. With large-scale outbreaks of Chikungunya fever regularly occurring in many parts of the world, the vulnerability of the world‘s population to emerging infectious diseases spread by insects is apparent. A team of researchers from leading institutions across the EU and their...