Research

  • Cancer epidemiology
  • Histopathology of upper respiratory tract tumours

E/Prof Edward Tock

  • Histochemistry applied to various pathological problems
  • Gynaecological pathology
  • Cytopathology
  • Carcinoma of the urinary bladder
  • Medical education

Prof Lee Yoke Sun

  • Pathology of muscle diseases
  • Pathology of skin disease

Prof Aileen Wee

  • Gastrointestinal pathology
  • Helicobacter pylori and gastroduodenal disease
  • Liver and biliary tract pathology
  • Fine needle aspiration biopsy of liver
  • Gene mutations in gastric carcinoma; gastritis and other neoplastic conditions affecting the stomach
  • Bladder neoplasms
  • Renal pathology including renal transplant pathology
  • Pattern and pathology of breast disease
  • Ultrastructural and immunochemical study of basement membrane in benign and malignant breast disease
  • Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia

A/Prof Evelyn Koay

  • Application of molecular research techniques to diagnosis and management of infectious diseases
  • Molecular diagnostics and targeted therapy in haematologic and solid tumours
  • Proteomic and genomic studies of breast and colon cancers
  • Molecular cross-talk of HER-2/neu-linked signal pathways in the tumour microenvironment
  • Lipid and lipoprotein analysis
  • Postprandial lipoprotein metabolism
  • Clinical Molecular Pathology - Application of molecular biology to diagnostic molecular testing·
  • Molecular Pathology - Translational research: diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic biomarkers in cancer.
  • Development of physiopathological animal models of disease for the study of stem cell function.

Dr Thomas Putti

  • Role of BRCA and telomeres in breast carcinomas
  • Sentinel lymph nodes and breast cancer
  • Morphology and gene expression profiles of breast caancer treated with sequential chemodrugs
  • Phyllodes tumours of breast
  • HPV and cervical cancer

Dr Lim Yaw Chyn

  • Tumor-endothelial cell interaction

Dr Robert Hewitt

  • Tumour suppressor genes (RUNX-3 and CC3)
  • Tumour-stromal interactions in invasion and metastasis.
  • Pathology of skin diseases
  • Renal cell carcinoma
  • Glomerulonephritis
  • Renal allograft pathology
  • Cancer epidemiology
  • Histopathology of upper respiratory tract tumours
  • Use of tissue microarrays to perform high throughput immunohistochemical studies using biological markers in the fields of sarcomas and lung tumours.