Department of Anatomy, NUS
Extra Info
Department of Anatomy
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Department Highlights
- Lunar New Year Lunch 2025
- New Year Lunch 2025
- Silent Mentors Appreciation Ceremony 2024
- Deepavali Lunch 2024
- Teachers' Day Celebration
The Way of Learning
While we explore on the latest technologies to facilitate learning, the silent mentors will continue to guide our students to be better doctors, with skills and compassion.
- NUS HALO: Digitization of the Anatomy Museum aims to facilitate virtual viewing and learning of human anatomy. Incorporating the common technology in the process to enhance the learning experience.
- Body Donation Programme: Body donations to the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine are greatly appreciated by the students and faculty, who treat each and every donated body (silent mentor) with the utmost respect and dignity.
New Tumour-Selective Light Treatment Could Kill Breast Cancer Cells With Greater Accuracy and Improve Tumour Control
Multidisciplinary team from YLLSOM, CDE and NUHS designs implant capable of wireless photodynamic therapy for breast cancer (SIRIUS).
Repurposed cancer drugs found to promote stroke recovery, limit brain damage
The study, led by Professor S Thameem Dheen, Dr Kevin Jayaraj and Dr Jai S. Polepalli from the Department of Anatomy at NUS Medicine, could pave the way for new treatment strategies that restore brain function after ischemic stroke.
Faculty Awards
- Dr Satish L Ramapatna awarded the NUS Medicine Special Recognition Award @ the NUS Medicine Awards Ceremony 2024
- Professor Bay Boon Huat awarded the NUS Medicine Special Recognition Award @ the NUS Medicine Awards Ceremony 2024
- Dr. Satish L Ramapatna mentored NUS Medicine students to emerge victorious at international Immunology and Microbiology competition
- Dr. Deepika Kandilya has been featured in the Humansofmedy Instagram page [A journey of a girl next door to become an anatomist]