
Assoc Prof Chuah Charles
Senior Consultant
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Senior Consultant
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Dr Charles Chuah is currently a Senior Consultant at the Department of Haematology, Singapore General Hospital (SGH). He is also an Associate Professor at the Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Program, Duke-NUS Medical School, and a Clinical Senior Lecturer at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He holds administrative appointments including Vice Chair Research, SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Clinical Program for Medicine; Director, Research, SingHealth Duke-NUS Blood Cancer Centre; and Lead, Molecular Laboratory and Myeloproliferative Disorders/Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Service, Department of Haematology, SGH.
Dr Chuah has a keen interest in clinical and translational research in chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) and targeted therapy for blood cancer, particularly in studying mechanisms of resistance and targeted therapy in CML. Over the past eleven years, he has been awarded four national grants and five institutional grants, totaling S$2.8 million in funding. He was also awarded the prestigious National Medical Research Council Clinician Scientist Award in 2007 and 2010. Dr Chuah is a principal investigator in over twenty multi-centre clinical trials.
Dr Chuah is a prolific researcher and has published extensively, with over 60 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals including Nature, Nature Medicine, Nature Genetics, New England Journal of Medicine, Cancer Cell, PNAS, Blood, Leukemia and Journal of Clinical Oncology. In addition, he served as a member of the Scientific Review Panel of the NMRC from 2007 to 2018. He was also the Co-chair for the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (Asia) Consensus Statement Panel for CML in 2008.