* Elected as the 69th President of Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), the first person in East Asia and the only ethnic Chinese chosen to head the US-based scholarly society.

* Mentioned in the Straits Times, April 30, 2005, received the French government decoration for services to education. Received the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques.

* Awarded the Outstanding Researcher Award (Team Award) at NUS University Awards 2005.

* Received an outstanding achievement award, for a paper, "Regualtion of the Na+/H+ exchanger, NHE-1 gene expression: a new target for the management of tumor cells resistance to anticancer treatment" presented at the 9^th World congress on Advances in Oncology and 7^th International Symposium on Molecular Medicine. Paper was selected out of 429 papers presented.

* 1995: National Science & Technology Award, Singapore ("Outstanding Contribution to Genetic Engineering”).

* 2000: Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) Innovations Award.

* 2001: National University of Singapore “Outstanding Researcher Award”.

* 2005: Published impactful research findings in EMBO J.

* 2006: Published impactful research findings in PNAS.

* 2007: Published research findings in EMBO J and Nature Immunology.

* 2009: Co-author for the research article "Local Inflammation Induces Complement Crosstalk Which Amplifies the Antimicrobial Response" which is published in PLOS Pathogens Journal in January 2009.

* 2009: NUS Faculty of Science Provost's Chair Professorship from 1 Jul 2010 to 30 Jun 2013.

1. Invited as Visiting Professor at National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan (2008).

2. Elected as Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford University, UK (2006).

3. Won Young Researcher Award, NUS University Awards (2004).

* 2009: NUS Faculty of Science Provost's Chair Professorship from 1 Jul 2010 to 30 Jun 2013.

* Paper " Does supplemental vitamin C increase cardiovascular disease risk in women with diabetes?" (Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 80: 1194-1200; Nov 2004) jointly with University of Iowa, research partly supported by BMRC was selected by NIH as one of the 25 "Significant Advances in Dietary Supplement Research" for 2004 (available here) covered in Netwatch (Science Nov 4 2005,p753).

* Visiting Professor, University of Muenster, Germany. (Anorganisch-Chemisches Institut der WWU Münster Wilhelm-Klemm-Strasse 8 , D-48149 Münster, Germany) , Aug-Oct 2003. This visiting position was partially supported by Humboldt Foundation, Germany.

* Visiting Professor, University of Strasbourg, France (Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, UMR 7513 CNRS Universite Louis Pasteur ,4, rue Blaise Pascal , 67070 Strasbourg (France)).

Prof Lee is invited by POSTECH (a new Korean university established in 1986 dedicated to Science and Technology) to take up a Korean equivalent of Temasek Professorship. He will spend 2 months each year (for the next 3 years) to help them establish a world-class programme in “Precision Control”.

Click here to read his research seminar on "Direct Adaptive NN Control of MIMO Nonlinear
Discrete-Time Systems using Discrete Nussbaum
Gain".

* Awarded the 2005 National Science Award, for his pioneering work in theoretical physics which contributes to the understanding of heat conduction and control of heat flow at microscopic level." A/P Li has also been awarded the 2004/2005 OCPA (Overseas Chinese Physics Association) Asia Achievement Awards.

* New gene research sheds light on brain atrophy
(Source: The Straits Times, Dec 11, 2003).

* His review paper on "insoluble proteins could be in fact solubilized in pure water" was recommended by Faculty1000 and listed as the top 1 most-reviewed paper in Biochemistry, Bioinformatics and Structural Biology.

* Awarded the Outstanding Researcher Award (Team Award) at NUS University Awards 2005.

* Appointed as a SMART Faculty Fellow, effective 1 January 2011, for a one-year period in recognition of his valuable contributions to the intellectual life of the BioSystems and Micromechanics (BioSyM) Interdisciplinary Research Group.

* Awarded a Walton Visiting Fellowship (2009) to the National University of Ireland at Galway by the Science Foundation of Ireland.

* Invited as a Raine Visiting Professor 2008 for Raine Medical Research Foundation and the School of Anatomy and Human Biology. Presented a Raine Visiting Professor Lecture Series "The power of the excluded volume effect in biology – putting the genie back into the bottle". *

* Wrote an article "Lab-based Research is the Best Education".

* Movers
(Source: Nature, Vol 427, 29 January 2004).

* Ex-Yale don to pioneer lipids work here
(Source: The Straits Times, February 10, 2004).

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* Awarded the NGS Teaching Commendation Award 2010.

* 2009: NUS Faculty of Science Dean's Chair Professorship from 1 Jul 2010 to 30 Jun 2013.

* Elected to the US National Academy of Engineering as a Foreign Associate, for her outstanding achievements in education, research, and management in the field of mammalian cell culture.

* Awarded the NGS Teaching Commendation Award 2010.

* Synthesising East and West A multi-disciplinary consortium wins U.S. grant for research in complementary and alternative medicine Read more.
(Source: NUS Knowledge Enterprise, Nov/Dec 2003)