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Alumnus Named The Straits Times Singaporean of the Year 2020

1 February 2021

Alumnus Professor Ooi Eng Eong was named Singaporean of the Year for his vaccine work. Watch his interview.

Congratulations to our alumnus Professor Ooi Eng Eong (Class of 1984) from Duke-NUS Medical School, and the COVID-19 front-line fighters! They have collectively been named " The Straits Times Singaporean of the Year 2020 (opens in new tab).

Prof Ooi is the co-developer of Lunar-Cov19, Singapore's sole Sars-CoV-2 vaccine now undergoing human trials. He was also featured in our book of Josephians - For Others, which was published in 2018.

Watch his interview and the development of the vaccine in The Vaccine Quest (opens in new tab) on Channel NewsAsia.