Professor Philip MOORE

Executive Director (NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering)

email: dprmpk@nus.edu.sg |  Ph:6601 1669



As the Executive Director of NGS, Professor Moore seeks to promote integrative research within NUS by promoting cross-discipline PhD projects and coursework. NGS is an excellent vehicle for this endeavour with good links to the relevant Faculties, Schools and Research Centres of Excellence at NUS as well as the various research institutes of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). Over the years, NGS has also built synergistic, complementary partnerships with a select number of leading overseas research institutes and knowledge organisations in the USA, UK, Europe, Japan, Australia, and China.

Professor Moore obtained his PhD from the King's College, University of London in 1979 and rose through the ranks at King's College firstly as Lecturer then as Reader before finally becoming Professor in 2000. He came to NUS in 2003 to take up the post of Professor and Head of the Department of Pharmacology and thereafter became Vice Dean of Research and Director of Graduate Medicine in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in 2007. After a spell back in the UK, Professor Moore re-joined NUS in 2010 as a Research Director in the Office of the Deputy President for Research and Technology with concurrent Professorial appointments in the Departments of Pharmacology and Pharmacy.

Professor Moore is a pharmacologist by trade with a longstanding and ongoing interest in the biology of naturally occurring gases such as nitric oxide and hydrogen sulfide. His related interest is in drug discovery and development. Professor Moore has published over 150 papers in learned Journals and presented more than a hundred lectures at conferences, academic institutions and pharmaceutical companies. He is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher and was either Editor or Managing Editor of the British Journal of Pharmacology for over a dozen years. Throughout his careeer his work has been enhanced and enriched by numerous collaborations with scientists from many other disciplines notably, but not exclusively, biomedical scientists, clinicians, chemists and statisticians and, as such, he is very much an advocate of the benefits of both collaborative research and integrative science. He has guided a number of students to their PhD degrees both in the UK and in Singapore which remains one of his fondest achievements.