Dr Mervyn Lim
Committee Member
Dr Mervyn Lim Jun Rui, MBBS, MRCS, MPH, FRCSEd (Neurosurgery)
Dr Mervyn Lim is a clinician-scientist resident under the Singapore Integrated Programme for Neurosurgery and adjunct research fellow at the Memory, Ageing, and Cognition Centre (MACC) in the Department of Pharmacology, NUS. He was awarded the gold medal at the exit examination for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Neurosurgery in 2025 and received his MBBS and MPH (valedictorian and winner of the Tye Cho Yook Gold Medal Award) from the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is currently reading his PhD part-time at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (YLLSoM) and the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, National Institute of Health, US.
Mervyn is currently the Principal Investigator of the PREPATCH-SICH Cohort Study, a prospective cohort aimed at investigating the pathophysiological mechanisms of post-stroke cognitive impairment and dementia after incident of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage, as well as the PREMANE trial which aims to use transcranial magnetic stimulation to improve long-term functional outcomes after stroke rehabilitation. He received the National Outstanding Clinician Scientist Resident Award in 2022, has a H-index of 9, won a total grant quantum of S$1,016,953.36, published 45 peer-reviewed articles, and have been a scientific mentor for 2 research assistants, 1 clinical research coordinator, 10 medical students, 1 NUS life sciences student’s final year project, and 2 master of public health students’ practicum thesis.
Mervyn’s passion is to investigate the neural correlates of human cognition as well as to revolutionise treatment of neurological and psychiatric disease through precision neuromodulation and neurorestoration.