On 22 July 2024, SMART participated in the Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) Symposium, centred on the theme of “Decarbonisation” and how we can leverage disruptive technologies and innovations to mitigate the perennial problem of carbon emissions and build a more sustainable future. The Symposium featured keynote sessions in the morning, followed by a series of presentations by researchers and a panel discussion by collaborators at CREATE on the topics of biochemical transformation, chemical transformation, hydrogen utilisation and AI/modelling.
The Symposium commenced with an opening address by Professor Tan Chorh Chuan, Permanent Secretary, National Research and Development, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore, and welcomed leading academics and industry experts, including professors and researchers from member institutions of CREATE.
In a keynote session, Professor Richard Lester, Japan Steel Industry Professor, Vice Provost for International Activities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Board member of the SMART Governing Board, presented on the topic of ‘Research Universities and the Climate Challenge: Science and Solutions for Life in a Changing World’, where he highlighted the problems and opportunities posed by the global climate challenge and discussed the critical role of research universities in combating climate change. He emphasised the need for the rapid implementation of existing policies and technologies and the development of innovative solutions - where universities play a key role in driving this innovation - and introduced MIT's Climate Project as an example of such an initiative.
Researchers from the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Critical Analytics for Manufacturing Personalized-Medicine (CAMP) interdisciplinary research groups showcased their research work during the poster sessions. These include their research work on re-engineering translation to boost protein production, enhancing pathogen detection and antimicrobial resistance phenotypic profiling based on Electrostatic Microfiltration (EM)-enabled sample preparation, and machine-learning based detection of adventitious agents in T-cell therapy cultures, and accelerating cell therapy safety using digital CRISPR approaches, amongst others.
The CREATE Symposium served as a platform to bring together a distinguished group of industry experts and institutional representatives to collaboratively address the urgent issue of climate change and explore innovative solutions towards decarbonisation.
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