Singapore on Wednesday opened its first clinical imaging research center, one of the first in the world with a new technology that will literally change the way researchers view diseases.
According to Channel NewsAsia reports, the research center will be fully operational by the middle of next year, with plans for expansion by 2010.
Housed at the center for life sciences building of the National University of Singapore (NUS), A-Star, NUS and Siemens have started a five-year collaboration, with Siemens also setting up a research foundation grant of 2.5 million U.S. dollars for the facility.
The center, which will have a 30-member team in its first phase, is now in the midst of recruiting.
Researchers in Singapore are expected to find treatments and even ways to prevent the diseases like diabetes with the new technology of MR-PET.
Source: Xinhua
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