President's Foreword 2024
The President’s Science and Technology Awards recognises outstanding achievements
in our scientific community, with the potential to tackle the challenges
of our times and touch many lives.
This year’s awardees once again exemplify the spirit of innovation. From
shaping our R&D landscape, to nurturing talent and fostering interdisciplinary
collaborations. From transforming the management of cardio-respiratory
diseases, to resolving a mystery in organic luminescent materials that
have stumped scientists for decades, enabling the design of high-performance
materials with important new applications.
Our Young Scientist Award recipients themselves reflect the growing depth
and diversity of Singapore’s R&D talent pipeline. Their contributions
span across advancing artificial intelligence, designing green catalysts
for sustainable manufacturing, developing computational methods for ribonucleic
acid research, and improving eye health. I look forward to seeing them
and other young scientists make even greater impacts in the years to come.
My warmest congratulations to each of this year’s recipients of the President’s
Science and Technology Awards!
Tharman Shanmugaratnam
President of the Republic of Singapore