A/Prof Sanjay Haresh Chotirmall
Interim Centre Director, SCELSE
MB BCh BAO (NUI) FRCPI FCCP FAMS FRCP (UK) (Lond) PhD
Vice Dean (Research), Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
Provost’s Chair in Molecular Medicine, NTU Singapore
Consultant Respiratory Physician, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
Email: schotirmall@ntu.edu.sg
Associate Professor Sanjay Haresh Chotirmall graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) with an honours degree and the colleges’ gold medal in Microbiology. He completed his clinical training in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine across multiple hospital sites in the Republic of Ireland. To date, he has secured >SGD$75 million in research funding including leadership on a national respiratory programme: The Academic Respiratory Initiative for Pulmonary Health (TARIPH) funded through a National Medical Research Council- Open Fund- Large Collaborative Grant (NMRC-OF LCG). He has published >12 book chapters and >220 papers in top-tier journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Medicine, the Lancet Respiratory Medicine, the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and the European Respiratory Journal. His work has received national, regional, and international recognition by the academic community exemplified by the Royal Academy of Medicine of Ireland (RAMI) Doctor award on two separate occasions, the Irish Thoracic Society Award, the Dublin Centre for Clinical Research (DCCR) Young Investigator Award, the Molecular Medicine Ireland-CSFP Medal, the Royal College of Physicians William Stokes Award for research and the American Thoracic Societies International Award. More recently, he has received the NHG-LKCMedicine Clinician-Scientist Award (2022), the NHG Research Impact Award (2021), the inaugural LKCMedicine Dean’s Award for Research (2020) and the ‘Research and Innovation’ Award (2020) by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). In 2021, Expertscape recognizes him as a world expert in bronchiectasis, representing the top 0.1% of scholars in this field and last year (2024) he was recognized as the top 1% of scholars worldwide and top 0.5% for bronchiectasis by ScholarGPS and appears in the top 2% most cited scientists list by Stanford-Elsevier. He has delivered several prestigious lectureships including the 2024 Margaret Turner Warwick Lecture (Imperial College London) and the 33rd Seah Cheng Siang Memorial Lecture (College of Physicians, Academy of Medicine, Singapore). He has been conferred four fellowships: FRCPI, FCCP, FRCP UK, FAMS and named Provost’s Chair in Molecular Medicine at NTU. Assoc Prof Chotirmall currently holds several editorial roles most significantly at the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (as Deputy Editor). Assoc Prof Chotirmall regularly participates as an investigator for key multi-centre clinical trials in the field of Respiratory Medicine while continuing to educate undergraduates and postgraduates through formal teaching and supervision both at the bench and bedside. As a recognised clinician-scientist, Assoc Prof Chotirmall has established a Translational Respiratory Research Group at NTU with focus on complex lung infection and the pulmonary microbiome in Asian populations. He continues clinical practice at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore and currently serves as Vice Dean (Research) at LKCMedicine and interim director of SCELSE.
