Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
南洋理工大学

Singapore

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Young and research-intensive, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has 33,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students in engineering, business, science, humanities, arts, social sciences, education and medicine. NTU’s Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine was established jointly with Imperial College London.

Ranked 11th in the world, NTU has been placed the world’s top young university for the past six years. The NTU Smart Campus is frequently listed among the Top 15 most beautiful university campuses in the world and it has 57 Green Mark-certified (equivalent to LEED-certified) building projects, of which 95% are certified Green Mark Platinum.

NTU is home to world-class autonomous institutes - the National Institute of Education, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Earth Observatory of Singapore, and Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering - and various leading research centres such as the Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute (NEWRI) and Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N).

Apart from its main campus, NTU also has a campus in Novena, Singapore’s healthcare district.

A cosmopolitan hub of more than 100 nationalities, the NTU community comprises about 5,000 faculty and researchers.

1 October 2019 - 30 September 2020

Region: Global
Subject/journal group: All

The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for Nanyang Technological University (NTU) published between 1 October 2019 - 30 September 2020 which are tracked by the Nature Index.

Hover over the donut graph to view the FC output for each subject. Below, the same research outputs are grouped by subject. Click on the subject to drill-down into a list of articles organized by journal, and then by title.

Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject area.

Count	Share
623	239.95

Outputs by subject (Share)

Subject	Count	Share
Earth & Environmental Sciences	76	31.72
Life Sciences	124	27.16
Chemistry	279	127.54
Physical Sciences	277	107.17
ACS Nano	30	12.42
Advanced Functional Materials	37	14.80
Advanced Materials	50	24.16
Applied Physics Letters	16	5.39
European Physical Journal C	5	0.29
Journal of High Energy Physics	8	0.17
Nano Letters	19	6.59
Nature	4	1.22
Nature Communications	40	16.75
Nature Materials	1	0
Nature Nanotechnology	1	0.11
High oscillator strength interlayer excitons in two-dimensional heterostructures for mid-infrared photodetection 2020-06-29		0.11
Nature Photonics	4	0.60
Nature Physics	4	1.42
Physical Review A	4	1.26
Physical Review B	3	1.18
Physical Review Letters	24	9.81
Physical Review X	3	0.06
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America	10	3.45
Science Advances	14	7.48

Highlight of the month

All about that BACE2

Brain organoids grown from the reprogrammed hair cells of people with Down syndrome have revealed a gene that can act as a natural suppressor of Alzheimer’s disease.

Around 70% of people with Down syndrome develop dementia during their lifetimes. This is because, with three copies of chromosome 21, they inherit an extra copy of a gene involved in making amyloid-β, the sticky protein that can clump in the brain, leading to neuronal loss.

A similar percentage of the lab-grown ‘mini brains’ created by scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and elsewhere also showed the hallmark features of Alzheimer’s disease. The pathology could be induced, however, by genetically eliminating the third copy of BACE2, a gene found on chromosome 21.

The researchers detailed how BACE2 acts as a dose-sensitive suppressor of Alzheimer’s — a finding that could now be exploited therapeutically to forestall neurodegeneration in people both with and without Down syndrome.

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