Shaping Medicine, Transforming Care | National University Hospital (NUH), Singapore’s Leading Tertiary Hospital

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In today’s fast-changing healthcare landscape, NUH continues to challenge boundaries and chart new territories, bringing hope to patients who come through our door. These stories highlight our achievements and commitment to care, research and innovation.

New organ preservation method to cut transplant waiting times

Our team at the National University Centre for Organ Transplantation (NUCOT) has introduced hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP), a new way of organ preservation that results in better outcomes for less-than-ideal kidneys in transplantation.

Newfound hope for blood cancer patients

A/Prof Koh Liang Piu (Senior Consultant, Division of Haematology, Department of Haematology-Oncology, National University Cancer Institute, Singapore (NCIS)) played an instrumental role in developing the Haplo-2017 protocol for blood stem cell transplant. This novel cell-selection technique, makes non-full matched stem cell transplants a feasible treatment option for nearly all blood cancer patients.

NUH care turns high-risk pregnancy into miraculous birth

With careful care and planning by the multidisciplinary team comprising members from the Departments of Medicine, and Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Mdm Fadilah, an end-stage kidney failure patient, defied all odds and became a mother to a healthy baby girl.

One-size-does-not-fit-all: the future of personalised leukaemia treatment

A ground-breaking study led by Dr Shawn Lee (Consultant, Division of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, Department of Paediatrics, Khoo Teck Puat – National University Children's Medical Institute has shed light on a precision medicine approach, where treatment strategy can be tailored to the different Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) subtypes for better outcomes.

2023/09/05

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2023/09/05