The National University of Singapore (Suzhou) Research Institute (NUSRI), established in 2010, is the first research institute set up and operated independently by an overseas world-class university in China. Over the past seven years, it has made great contributions to the enhanced cooperation between China and Singapore in science and technology development as well as the concentration of international science and technology resources in Suzhou, providing great support for local industrial upgrading.

Focusing on originality and innovation, NUSRI currently has 14 research teams dedicated to researches in six fields, including Nano materials, bio-medicine, energy and environmental protection technologies, advanced electronic devices, software engineering and agricultural and food technologies. As a comprehensive international research institute, NUSRI has established a number of organizations engaged in researches on humanities and social sciences, such as the NUS Business School China Business Centre, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Suzhou Centre, the Institute of Real Estate Studies (IRES) Global Logistic Properties Research Centre and the Risk Management and Quantitative Finance Centre.

NUSRI's researchers are mainly from world famous universities, such as Cambridge, Princeton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford, University of California Berkeley, and Columbia. NUSRI has undertaken 67 scientific research projects under the Natural Science Foundation of China and provincial and ministerial programs. It has applied for 44 international patents and published 380 internationally influential papers, including seven in Nature's journals.