Ganga Sravanthi Cheerlavancha never expected that the analytical techniques she first learned in pharmaceutical analysis would one day help decode the hidden signals inside living plants. With a background in pharmaceutical analysis, she developed a fascination with uncovering the molecular information hidden within complex biological systems - things that cannot be seen with the naked eye. That curiosity eventually led her straight to plant science. Today, as a Research Eng

Held on 10 June, the Biology@CREATE seminar, hosted by SMART’s Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) interdisciplinary research group (IRG), brought together close to 60 attendees, including members from the Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) institutions, researchers and local and visiting students, to explore how biological iron measurements can enable a range of biological applications. Prof Jongyoon Han presenting at the Biology@CREATE Seminar A

Singapore, 2 June 2026 - Researchers from the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NIE NTU, Singapore) and Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) - Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) research enterprise in Singapore - in collaboration with clinicians from the National University Hospital (NUH) and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have developed a novel fluo

On 21 and 22 May 2026, SMART’s Mens, Manus and Machina (M3S) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) participated in the ATxEnterprise (ATxE) event, part of Asia Tech x Singapore (ATxSG), a leading platform for technology innovation and collaboration jointly organised by the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA) and Informa. The event brought together policymakers, industry leaders and experts to explore topics across 5 key verticals: applied artificial inte

Managing chronic diseases such as heart failure and hypertension remains one of the most pressing challenges facing ageing societies. In Singapore, where the proportion of older adults is rising rapidly, there is a growing urgency to move beyond episodic, hospital-based care towards continuous, personalised monitoring in homes and communities. Addressing this challenge is the focus of the Wearable Imaging for Transforming Elderly Care (WITEC) collaborative research project at

The SMART Mens, Manus, and Machina (M3S) interdisciplinary group participated at RoboSoft 2026, the 9th IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, held in Kanazawa, Japan, from April 7-11. Robosoft 2026 is a leading international conference for sharing cutting-edge research across different fields in soft robotics, which includes wearable systems, medical applications, underwater and aerial robots, and edible and biodegradable systems. The M3S team’s paper titled “Adapti

The Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) interdisciplinary research group (IRG) at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) aims to develop innovative and disruptive approaches to tackle one of today’s most pressing health threats – antimicrobial resistance. Part of this effort is Zeus Nair, Senior Postdoctoral Associate at SMART AMR. His work centres on uncovering the mechanisms that drive antimicrobial resistance in bacteria, combining hands-on laboratory e

Uncovering How Bacteria Suppress Immune Defences in Stubborn Wound Infections Chronic wound infections, such as diabetic foot ulcers and post-surgical infections, are difficult to treat as some bacteria can interfere with the body’s immune defences. Hence, these persistent wounds place a heavy burden on patients and healthcare systems. Researchers from SMART Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) interdisciplinary research group (IRG) have uncovered how Enterococcus faecalis (E. faec

A common bacterium, Enterococcus faecalis, can suppress the body’s early warning system in wounds, causing infections to persist and create an environment that allows other bacteria to take hold The bacterium releases large amounts of lactic acid in the wound, which lowers pH, weakens immune cells and prevents them from fighting an infection These findings could help develop better ways to treat stubborn wounds – such as diabetic foot ulcers and post-surgical infections – whi

What if machines could “see” the world the way humans do? At the Wafer-scale Integrated Sensing Devices based on Optoelectronic Metasurfaces (WISDOM) interdisciplinary research group at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), researchers are working to make this a reality, developing ultra-thin, scalable sensing devices that help machines better understand depth, shape and space like humans do. Wang Yue, Principal Research Scientist at SMART WISDOM , is dr