NTU-SCELSE team advances biosurveillance research
New research will establish a Singapore baseline for wildlife–human environmental interactions
The SCELSE team includes (L-R) researchers Sera Kim, PI & A/Prof Hie Lim Kim, Dr Desmond Chua and PI & A/Prof Janelle Thompson;
together with Asst Prof Michele Nguyen, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, NTU Asst Prof Weng Ngai Lam, NTU Asian School of the Environment.
- In the Media, Featured
- 06 Aug 2026
A multidisciplinary NTU Singapore team led by NTU-SCELSE PI A/Prof Janelle Thompson will conduct one of six projects supported by NParks’ $15 million Biosurveillance Research Programme.
Focusing on otters, civets, plantain squirrels and fruit bats, the team will sample nature reserves, parks and other human–animal interfaces to establish an environmental baseline and develop a pathogen-agnostic quantitative microbial risk assessment framework.
“The point of our project is not to pick one pathogen and focus on it, but to use an approach that could handle any pathogen,” said A/Prof Thompson.
Read more: Five questions with A/Prof Janelle Thompson | The Straits Times coverage I NParks News Release
