University Awards

University Research Recognition Award

Innovate the design and synthesis of organic molecules and nanomaterials to advance biomedical research and cancer treatment. ” Prof LIU Bin
Senior Vice Provost (Faculty and Institutional Development)
Distinguished Professor
PhD (NUS)
BS, MS (Nanjing University)
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, College of Design and Engineering
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Research Achievements

  • Well-recognised in the field of organic functional materials for her contributions in polymer chemistry and applications of organic nanomaterials for biomedical research and energy devices
  • Invented light-up molecular probes and nanoparticle probes for cancer cell detection, biological process monitoring and image-guided cancer therapy
  • Raised research grants of over $35 million as Principal Investigator
  • Filed 30 patents with 16 of them licensed to different companies in the US, UK, and Asia
  • Co-founded Luminicell, an NUS spin-off company that produces organic luminescent nanoparticles for biomedical applications

Publication Credits

  • Published 510 peer-reviewed articles and edited / co-edited five books
  • Obtained over 46,000 total citations with a Hirsch index of 109
  • Achieved 36 world’s Top 1% highly cited publications and 252 world’s Top 10% highly cited publications from 2011 to 2020

International Standing

  • Deputy editor of ACS Materials Letters (since 2019) and associate editor of Polymer Chemistry (2014 – 2018)
  • Member of editorial advisory boards of 18 peer-reviewed chemistry and materials journals
  • Among the world’s most influential scientific minds: Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers, in Chemistry, Materials or Cross-Field by Clarivate Analytics (2018 – 2021) and Thomson Reuters (2014 – 2017)

Awards and Accolades

  • International Member, US National Academy of Engineering (2022)
  • Kabiller Young Investigator Award in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine (2021)
  • Centenary Prize and Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry (2021)
  • Distinguished Woman Chemist Award, Singapore National Institute of Chemistry − Asian Crystallographic Association (2021)
  • ACS Nano Lectureship Award, American Chemical Society (ACS) (2019)
  • President’s Technology Award (2016)
  • Materials in Society Lectureship, Elsevier (2015)
  • L’Oréal Women in Science National Fellowship (2011)
  • National Science and Technology Young Scientist Award (2008)
  • Fellow, Singapore National Academy of Sciences (2020); Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials (2017); Singapore National Academy of Engineering (2017); and Royal Society of Chemistry (2016)
 
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