The Food@CREATE Seminar held on 11 February brought together experts from Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) entities and partners, as well as other organisations, to examine how science and technology can support Singapore’s evolving food security strategy. The discussions highlighted research translation and the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in strengthening resilience across the agri-food ecosystem. Singapore-MIT Alliance f

Group photo from the CREATE Idea Sprint 2026, co-organised by SMART and TUMCREATE, featuring Team Kelp65 receiving the top award for their FoodTech proposal to develop kelp as an alternative protein source (Photo: SMART DiSTAP; photo taken by Dr Anoop Patil) On 5 January 2026, the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) participated in the Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) 2026, organised by the National Research Foundation Singapore (NRF). As part of a

On 5 November, the CREATE Seminar ‘Intelligence with Resilience: AI, Robotics, and Security at the Frontiers’, brought together four leading CREATE entities — Singapore-HUJ Alliance for Research and Enterprise (SHARE), Imperial Global Singapore (IGS), Illinois Advanced Research Center at Singapore (Illinois ARCS), and the Mens, Manus, and Machina (M3S) interdisciplinary group from Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research Technology (SMART) — to showcase complementary strengths in

Dr Kerwin Kwek Zeming, Research Scientist at SMART CAMP, recently presented CAMP’s latest work at the Cell & Gene Therapy World Asia 2025 conference, where he shared insights from the team’s research paper on label-free, microfluidic-based biophysical profiling of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T (CAR T) cells.   Through his presentation, Dr Kwek showcased CAMP’s efforts to develop advanced tools for the next generation of cell therapies. “We developed a microfluidic ‘obstacle cou

In August 2025, SMART’s Critical Analytics for Manufacturing Personalized-Medicine (CAMP) interdisciplinary research group (IRG) hosted an Adoptive Cell Therapy Symposium, co-organised with Esco Aster, a Singapore-founded and headquartered vertically-integrated contract research, development and manufacturing organisation. The half-day event brought together a diverse community of cell therapy manufacturing researchers, clinician-scientists, biotech innovators, investors, and

In July 2025, the SMART’s Mens, Manus and Machina (M3S) interdisciplinary research group (IRG) hosted two symposiums in partnership with Singapore Management University (SMU) and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA). Both symposiums brought together over 500 speakers and attendees, including government representatives, industry leaders, and academics, to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the future of work, learning, and society. The symposiums

On 27 May 2025, SMART Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) Mens, Manus and Machina (M3S) was proud to participate at the ATxEnterprise...

The M3S team participated at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025, a globally renowned conference for...

SMART's Mens, Manus and Machina (M3S) interdisciplinary research group (IRG) recently participate d at the RoboSG! 2025 exhibition,...

On 13 March 2025, researchers from SMART's Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG), Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural...