Prof. David Virshup Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore

David Virshup, M.D., joined Duke-NUS in 2007 as a Professor and the inaugural Director of the Programme in Cancer and Stem Cell Biology. He holds a joint appointment as Professor of Pediatrics at Duke University. Dr. Virshup received his medical and research training at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in... read moreBaltimore, Maryland, and established his first independent laboratory at the University of Utah. Prof Virshup’s laboratory currently has two major interests: Wnt signaling and circadian rhythms. His team’s work in Wnt signaling led to Singapore’s first home-grown drug, a small molecule inhibitor of Wnt secretion, ETC-159. Prof. Virshup has been elected to several honorific societies including the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and the Association of American Physicians (AAP).