09/11/06

FUNDINGS

• Singhealth Cluster Research Fund FY 2002  

(Budget: $135, 000 for 1 year)

Status: Co investigator

Title:    Laboratory facilities to fabricate biosensors for clinical applications in dentistry

• Strategic Developmental Research grant, School of MPE, NTU FY 2001

(Budget: $20,000 for 1 year)

Status:             Co investigator

Title: Fiber-optic based physiological sensor

• National Dental Centre Research Fund FY 2003

(Budget 11,186 for 5 months)

Status: Collaborator

Project title: Laboratory Facilities to Fabricate Biosensors for Clinical Dental Applications

• Academic Research Funding FY 2003-04 (Budget: S$ 145,250 for 3 years)

Status: Principal Investigator

Title: Advanced Non Invasive Light Therapy to eradicate bacterial flora in dentine

•  Academic Research Fund / NUS Provost Fund FY05-07 (Budget: 37,965 for 2 years)

Status: Co-Principal Investigator

Title: Rapid optical method to monitor caries activity in children

• Academic Research Fund FY06-09

   (Budget: S$ 167,000 for 3 years)

  Status: Principal Investigator

  Title: Intra-radicular causes of persistent endodontic infection

   

• Academic Research Fund FY06-09

   (Budget: S$ 340,000 for 3 years)

Status: Principal Investigator

Title: Substrate-Bacterial Interaction and development of nanoparticulate based treatment Strategies to prevent Biomaterial Centered Infection 

ACCOLADES

• Singapore Science & Engineering Fare 2006 (Team Award)

• DENTSPLY 2004 (Team Award)

• The Enterprise Challenge Innovator Award 2002 (Team Award)

• Far Eastern Economy Review–Young Inventor Award, Hong Kong (Final Team), 2002

• International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE), Washington, June 2001

• Tamilnadu State Dental Association Award, India, 1996

• Colgate-Palmolive Award, India, July 1994

• Federation of Operative Dentistry India, 1994

• First Rank Medal in Anatomy, Embryology & histology (BDS), University of Madras, 1987

• Rotary Club Student Merit Award, India, 1985