SINGAPORE - A professor who dedicated 30 years to building up the biomedical research community in Singapore was on Friday honoured with the President’s Science and Technology Medal, the highest recognition of research scientists and engineers here.

Professor Hong Wanjin, 62, the executive director of the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), which is part of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star), received the award from President Halimah Yacob at a ceremony held at the Istana.