Sequencing the unculturable: Pioneering patient precision with microbiomics

Agenda

17:00: Tea/coffee refreshments in Refectory

17:30: Margaret Turner Warwick Lecture delivered by Prof Sanjay Chotirmall, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Introduction: Professor Wisia Wedzicha

Lecture: Sequencing the unculturable: Pioneering patient precision with microbiomics: Professor Sanjay H Chotirmall
followed by Discussion

Vote of Thanks: Professor Clare Lloyd

18:30: Reception in Refectory

Prof Chotirmall is an internationally recognized clinician-scientist who has performed key work on endo-phenotyping pulmonary infection, including the use of next generation sequencing approaches, in the context of chronic inflammatory respiratory diseases affecting Asian populations. In 2018, he set up ‘The Academic Respiratory Initiative for Pulmonary Health (TARIPH)’, an interdisciplinary national platform that serves to align strategic expertise across Singapore to benefit Singaporeans with lung disease through research. TARIPH expanded into a centre in 2023 with the concurrent launch of the TARIPH patient network, the first patient advocacy group for respiratory disease in Singapore. In 2024, TARIPH secured the prestigious SGD$10 million National Medical Research Council (NMRC) Open-Fund Large Collaborative Grant (OF-LCG), an effort involving >50 investigators and >8 sites. To date, A/Prof Chotirmall’s work has led to >180 publications including in Nature Medicine, the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), Cell Host and Microbe, Nature Microbiology, the European Respiratory Journal (ERJ) and the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (AJRCCM). He currently serves as Deputy Editor at the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (AJRCCM).