Gorakhpur scientist bags SGD 3mn grant from Singapore’s NRF
Dr. Manvendra K Singh, an Indian scientist from Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur city, has been awarded a grant of SGD 3mn (about Rs. 14.7 crore) by the National Research Foundation, Singapore, to research in congenital and adult cardiovascular diseases. The NRF, a department within the Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore, is responsible for developing strategies, policies and plans for research, innovation and enterprise.
Young scientists
Dr. Singh, who works as an assistant professor in the cardiovascular and metabolic disorders programme at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, said he is among the seven young scientists from across the world to be endowed with the Singapore NRF fellowship to carry out cutting-edge research this year.
Adult heart diseases
He has been awarded the fellowship to pursue research in the field of congenital and adult cardiovascular diseases. Singh said his research interest is to study congenital and adult heart diseases, which are the leading causes of mortality worldwide. In Singapore, cardiovascular disease accounted for 30 per cent of the total deaths in 2014.
“Our laboratory studies the molecular mechanisms that regulate cardiovascular development, homeostasis and disease.
Our goal is to understand how signaling pathways and transcriptional networks regulate cardiovascular cell lineages differentiation and their interaction during heart morphogenesis.
