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Melvin LK Chua: A monumental work to start 2025
Jan 4, 2025, 14:10

Melvin LK Chua: A monumental work to start 2025

Melvin LK Chua, Clinician-Scientist at the NCCS and Duke-NUS Medical School, posted on X:

“A monumental work to start 2025!

Led by Jinxin Bei and global team.

We uncovered the link between germline SNPs and TIME of NPC nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

– RPL14 that modulates the EBV life cycle.
– SELE that modulates the TIME.”

Melvin LK Chua: A monumental work to start 2025

Whole-exome sequencing association study reveals genetic effects on tumor microenvironment components in nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Authors: Yanni Zeng, Chun-Ling Luo, Guo-Wang Lin, Fugui Li, Xiaomeng Bai, Josephine Mun-Yee Ko, Lei Xiong, Yang Liu, Shuai He, Jia-Xin Jiang, Wen-Xin Yan, Enya Hui Wen Ong, Zheng Li, Ya-Qing Zhou, Yun-He Zhou, An-Yi Xu, Shu-Qiang Liu, Yun-Miao Guo, Jie-Rong Chen, Xi-Xi Cheng, Yu-Lu Cao, Xia Yu, Biaohua Wu, Pan-Pan Wei, Zhao-Hui Ruan, Qiu-Yan Chen, Lin-Quan Tang, James D. McKay, Wei-Hua Jia, Hai-Qiang Mai, Soon Thye Lim, Jian-Jun Liu, Dong-Xin Lin, Chiea Chuen Khor, Melvin Lee Kiang Chua, Mingfang Ji, Maria Li Lung, Yi-Xin Zeng, Jin-Xin Bei

Melvin LK Chua

Dr. Melvin L.K. Chua is a Clinician-Scientist at the NCCS and Duke-NUS Medical School, and Principal Investigator of the Precision Radiotherapeutics and Oncology Programme, Division of Medical Sciences, supported by the NMRC Clinician-Scientist Award. He is also the Head of Department and Senior Consultant for Head and Neck and Thoracic Cancers, Division of Radiation Oncology, and Director of the Data and Computational Science Core at the NCCS. His research is focused on phase 2-3 trials in nasopharynx (NPC) and prostate cancers (PCa).

He is also on the scientific advisory board for the NPC Guangzhou-Singapore Trial Network, a board member on the Head Neck Cancer International Group (HNCIG), and the Clinical Trials Scientific Committee Chair of HNCIG. Dr. Chuaam’s other academic activities include his present role as the Editor-in-Chief, Annals of Nasopharynx Cancer and his previous role as the Associate Senior Editor for the Head and Neck Cancer Section of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics – Official journal of the American Society of Radiation Oncology.