E7 - Engineering's New Home of Tech-driven Healthcare
09 February
In the heart of South-East Asia’s leading university, a new home for tech-driven healthcare is taking shape. Opening in early 2021, E7 is a state-of-the-art building in the centre of the NUS campus and will become a world-leading hub for the development of affordable and accessible medical technology.
Spread across 8 storeys and more than 16,000 square metres, E7 will bridge the fields of engineering and medicine. Combining technology and innovation, it will be a hub for high impact collaboration between top researchers and industry. It will also drive the invention of pioneering healthcare technology from early concept ideas through incubation and on to commercialization. Students, researchers, scientists, and engineers will be working in what will be some of the most technologically advanced labs in the world.
“In E7, we are bringing together the expertise of NUS faculties from the schools of Engineering, Medicine and Business. With this diversity of expertise, we are not only making cutting edge technologies of today; we are also empowering patient care for tomorrow.” – Assistant Professor Shao Huilin, Biomedical Engineering.
“For me, innovation in healthcare is more than just creating ideas. We have to talk to patients and understand their concerns, and work with stakeholders like policymakers, regulators and clinicians. So, getting an innovation all the way to the finish line involves everything from behavioral sciences to healthcare economics, and Singapore is the ideal ecosystem to facilitate these interactions.” – Professor Dean Ho, Head of Department, Biomedical Engineering.
“The key mission of E7 is to drive a paradigm shift in healthcare, from a focus on symptom-based treatment to one that encompasses disease prediction, early diagnosis, and intervention. To achieve this, we will place tremendous focus in key technology areas such as digital medicine, theranostics, and robotics. With this deeper connection with our clinical partners, we will look at their pain points across multiple levels, develop and translate needs-driven holistic innovations that can advance the healthcare sector both locally and globally.” – Associate Professor Raye Yeow, Biomedical Engineering.
Here in E7, NUS will be bringing together a formidable team, ready to take on the world’s biggest healthcare challenges.
Submitted by Ms Ellen Poh.