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Signing of MoU between Shimadzu (Asia Pacific) and NUS at Singapore International Water Week: (From Left to Right) Ms Janice Chia, Sales
Manager, SGP Sales, Shimadzu (Asia Pacific) Pte Ltd, Singapore; Mr Kiminobu Imura, Managing Director, Shimadzu (Asia Pacific) Pte Ltd,
Singapore; Mr Yasuo Miura, Executive Director, Shimadzu Corporation, Japan; Professor Ong Choon Nam, Director, NUS Environmental Research
Institute; and Professor Lee Hian Kee, Department of Chemistry, NUS, Singapore

For media enquiries, please contact: About National University of Singapore (NUS)
Shimadzu (Asia Pacific) A leading global university centred in Asia, the National
University of Singapore (NUS) is Singapore’s flagship
Mr Saptarshi Chaudhuri (Bob)
university, which offers a global approach to education and
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research, with a focus on Asian perspectives and expertise.
Shimadzu (Asia Pacific) Pte Ltd
NUS has 16 faculties and schools across three campuses. Its
DID: (65) 6770 1338
transformative education includes a broadbased curriculum
Mob: (65) 9273 6168
underscored by multi-disciplinary courses and cross-faculty
Email: saptarshi@shimadzu.com.sg
enrichment. Over 37,000 students from 100 countries
enrich the community with their diverse social and cultural
NUS
perspectives. NUS has three Research Centres of Excellence
Mr Travis LEE (RCE) and 23 university-level research institutes and centres.
Senior Manager, Media Relations It is also a partner in Singapore’s fifth RCE. NUS shares a
Office of Corporate Relations close affiliation with 16 national-level research institutes
National University of Singapore and centres. Research activities are strategic and robust,
DID: (65) 6516 6391 and NUS is well-known for its research strengths in
Email: travislee@nus.edu.sg engineering, life sciences and biomedicine, social sciences
and natural sciences. It also strives to create a supportive
and innovative environment to promote creative enterprise
About Shimadzu (Asia Pacific) Pte Ltd
within its community.
Shimadzu (Asia Pacific) is the Asian subsidiary of Shimadzu For more information, please visit www.nus.edu.sg
Corporation, Japan. The subsidiary was established in 1989
in Singapore as a distribution centre providing analytical
solutions, scientific equipment, testing machines, balances About NUS Environmental Research Institute
and medical equipment to a wide range of laboratories in
Asia. A fast paced growth of business in the region has The National University of Singapore Environmental
seen the opening of 3 subsidiaries in India, Malaysia and Research Institute (NERI) is a leading interdisciplinary centre
the Philippines with application specialists, technical and for environmental research in Asia. The Institute brings
sales engineers situated throughout the region. together leading researchers and expertise across the NUS
Additionally, the company operates via a wide and carefully campus to conduct and foster collaborative,
selected network of local distributers in every region. The multidisciplinary environmental research; coordinate the
company's instruments are relied upon by researchers all development of strategic thematic research; train graduate
across Asia from large multinational organisations to local research students for academic careers in the environmental
academic research universities and a long list of local, state, sciences and engineering, and facilitate the transfer of
and central laboratories. Through adoption of scientific technology to industry. A key thrust of NERI is to conduct
inventions and cutting-edge technologies, Shimadzu (Asia innovative globally impactful research on scarce resources.
Pacific) provides its corporate clients with the highest Some of the current research undertaken within the
quality in product standards and the delivery of excellent Institute includes environmental monitoring, surveillance,
customer support services. and management of environmental pollutants,
environmental and public health issues related to climate
For more information, please visit www.shimadzu.com.sg. change, food security and safety, Green Chemistry and
Sustainable Energy such as waste-to-energy conversion.
For more information, please visit www.nus.edu.sg/neri

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