Prof Lim Chwee Teck joins the prestigious Fellowship of the Royal Society

Professor Lim Chwee Teck, Director of the Institute for Health Innovation & Technology at the National University of Singapore (NUS iHealthtech) and NUSS Professor, has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in recognition of his ground-breaking and invaluable contributions to mechanobiology and biomedical engineering. Prof Lim is the only Singaporean scientist among the 70 newly elected Royal Society Fellows in 2024, and he is also the second Singaporean scientist to be elected to the Fellowship since 1988.

Prof Lim, who is also with the Department of Biomedical Engineering under the NUS College of Design and Engineering, was formally admitted to the Society at the Admissions Day ceremony held at The Royal Society in London on 12 July 2024. During the ceremony, he had the honour of signing the Obligation of the Fellows of the Royal Society in the original Charter Book, which contained signatures of royalties as well as world-renowned scientists and personalities such as Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Stephen Hawking, and Winston Churchill.

The Royal Society is the world's oldest and most esteemed scientific academy in continuous existence, as well as the United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences. The Society grants the Fellowship of the Royal Society to exceptional individuals who have made significant contributions to the advancement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, and medical science.

“I am extremely honoured and humbled by the election to the Royal Society. I am grateful for the trust and confidence placed in me by my nominators, peers and colleagues. I am also thankful to NUS for the years of amazing support and encouragement. Finally, I would like to share this honour with my past and present lab members as well as collaborators, without whose contributions this would not have been possible,” said Prof Lim.  

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