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Outstanding Science Alumni Awards 2006
TAN Sok Pin Rosemary PhD 2001
CEO, Veredus Laboratories Pte Ltd
CEO, Genecet Biotechnologies Pte Ltd
TAN Sok Pin Rosemary received her BSc degree from the University of Calgary,
Canada. She was then awarded an EDB - Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha scholarship; and
she studied cancer biology and infectious diseases at the Institute of Cell and
Molecular Biology, Osaka University and the Department of Immunology at the
Medical School in University of Tokyo, Japan.
She obtained her PhD degree from the NUS and has published widely in immunology
and on the genetic basis of cancer and diseases. She was a recipient of the
Naito Science Award.
In 1999, she was nominated for the NUH-National Medical Research Council Young
Scientist Award for her study of infectious diseases. In 2003 she was awarded
the Spirit of Enterprise Award for her work in Genecet Biotechnologies, a
company she founded, dealing in educational kits.
Dr TAN moved on to form Veredus Laboratories, a medical diagnostics research
company engaged in assays for tropical infectious diseases.
She has more than ten years of experience in the life sciences including one
year at the National Cancer Centre. Dr TAN currently serves on the Biotechnology
Advisory Committee for Ngee Ann Polytechnic.
"An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. And if opportunity
doesn't knock, build a door."
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