1. Internal challenges for LKCMedicine
Limited faculty numbers
Multiple changes in senior leadership
Recruitment of senior faculty internationally
Differing views on leadership roles
Balance between teaching and research
Laboratories geographically widespread
Multiple reporting lines

2. Meeting the challenges in research at LKCMedicine
- thematic focus strategy
Match research themes with NHG capabilities
Focus within research themes
Choose areas that add value to Singapore
Metabolism
and diabetes
Family
medicine
Beta cell
biology
Neuroscience
and mental health
Infection
and Immunity
Respiratory
medicine
Dermatology
and skin biology

3. Meeting the challenges in research at LKCMedicine
- recruitment focus strategy
Early career faculty recruitment – Nanyang Assistant Professors
PhD programme, including clinicians from NHG
Second wave of senior faculty, especially clinician researchers
Reconfigure Visiting Professor programme
Paul Matthews
Helen Smith
Barry Marshall
John Chambers
Yun Xia
Wang Xiaomeng
Foo Jia Nee
Christine Cheung
Yasunori Saheki
Hiroshi Makino

4. Meeting the challenges in research at LKCMedicine
- partnerships focus strategy
Assist development of a research culture in NHG
Build research partnerships with NTU schools
Engage specific departments within ICL
Target other international collaborations
SCBE
NHG Polyclinics
SBS
Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Imperial College
Karolinska Insitutet
SCELSE
Institute of Mental Health
U of Newcastle Aus

5. Meeting the challenges in research at LKCMedicine
- infrastructure focus strategy
Experimental Medicine and Clinical Sciences Buildings
Singapore Phenome Centre
Marmoset research facility
Neuro-imaging facility
Brain bank
Zebra fish facility
Optical imaging equipment