Prof Sanjay Chotirmall is an internationally recognised 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).

AGENDA

5:00pm: Tea/coffee refreshments in Refectory

5:30pm: Margaret Turner Warwick Lecture delivered by Professor 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

6:30 pm: Reception in Refectory