ŌURA and National University of Singapore open Joint Lab to advance research in personalised preventive health

New Joint Lab marks ŌURA’s first research entity in the APAC region, deepening a six-year partnership with NUS focussing on key health behaviours including sleep and physical activity

22 Jan 2026 2 min read

ŌURA and National University of Singapore open Joint Lab to advance research in personalised preventive health

Members of the Oura-NUS joint lab with colleagues from Finland and the US at Oura, at World Sleep 2025 in Singapore. Front row from right to left: Michael Chee, NUS Medicine; Shyamal Patel SVP Science at Oura and Michael Chapp, COO at Oura.

This press release was jointly issued by ŌURA and National University of Singapore.

ŌURA, maker of the most scientifically validated smart ring, Oura Ring, and the Centre for Sleep and Cognition (CSC) at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), today announced the opening of the Oura–NUS Joint Lab, a new research entity dedicated to advancing personalised preventive health.

Located at NUS, the Joint Lab will advance scientific research by combining continuous, real‑world biometric data from ŌURA within approved research studies with NUS’s decades-long expertise in sleep science, physiological data analysis, and cognitive neuroscience to study how sleep and physical activity shape other areas of health and drive better health outcomes. The Joint Lab aims to generate insights that help individuals, clinicians, and health systems shift from reactive care to proactive, preventive health.

Building on a proven collaboration

ŌURA and NUS have collaborated for more than six years across multiple research projects, including evaluating the accuracy of Oura Ring’s sleep tracking¹²³⁴, characterising multi-country differences in nocturnal sleep variability⁵, exploring effects of travel-related sleep disruption⁶ and investigating how day‑to‑day shifts in wearable biometric data can inform about cardiovascular health and disease risk⁷.

The new Joint lab will expand this work by designing and running multi-year studies that use Oura Ring’s continuous data to understand how real‑world sleep and daily behaviours influence long‑term health outcomes, both at the individual and population levels.

“Changing health habits is notoriously difficult, and doing it well requires robust science and accurate, continuous data. Our long‑standing collaboration with NUS has already shown how high‑quality wearable data can deepen our understanding of cardiovascular, metabolic, and mental health. With this Joint Lab, we’re expanding that work to tackle some of the world’s most pressing preventive health challenges.”

Dr Shyamal Patel

Senior Vice President of Science

ŌURA

Singapore as a hub for global preventive health

The Joint Lab is the first research entity in APAC for ŌURA, underscoring the company’s commitment to the region and recognition of Singapore as a strategic hub for international growth, health innovation, and public–private collaboration. By anchoring this work in Singapore, the partners aim to contribute to national priorities around preventive health and healthy longevity and build data-driven models that can be scaled across APAC and global populations.

“The Joint Lab will accelerate the realisation of our shared goal of reducing the burden of chronic disease. By pairing Ōura’s continuous biometric data with our expertise in sleep science and behaviour change, we can test new ways of giving people timely and relevant feedback that help them make optimal lifestyle choices every day for better health outcomes.”

Professor Michael Chee

Director

Centre for Sleep and Cognition at NUS Medicine

“Ōura’s decision to set up a joint lab in Singapore builds on the strong foundation of its long-standing collaboration with NUS. This is Ōura’s first presence in Asia and reflects Singapore’s strong base of talent, research, and innovation capabilities, as well as the growing market opportunities in preventive health.”

Goh Wan Yee

Senior Vice President and Head, Healthcare

EDB

¹ Multi-Night Validation of a Sleep Tracking Ring in Adolescents Compared with a Research Actigraph and Polysomnography

²Improved sleep detection & classification with sleep tracker | NSS

³ Selecting a sleep tracker from EEG-based, iteratively improved, low-cost multisensor, and actigraphy-only devices - ScienceDirect

⁴ Performance of wearable sleep trackers during nocturnal sleep and periods of simulated real-world smartphone use - ScienceDirect

⁵ Country differences in nocturnal sleep variability: Observations from a large-scale, long-term sleep wearable study - ScienceDirect

⁶ Insights about travel-related sleep disruption from 1.5 million nights of data

⁷ RESET Collaborates with ŌURA to Transform Preventive Cardiovascular Health Through AI-Powered Wearable Insights - The Pulse Blog