Heading

Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
Consultant, Khoo Teck Puat National University Children’s Medical Institute, National University Hospital

Zhong Youjia is a paediatrician with a special interest in clinical immunology, and has more than 15 years of clinical experience. She is also a clinician scientist who leads a laboratory in paediatric vaccine immunology, with a focus on respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), T cell responses, and mucosal immunity in the paediatric population. She has been awarded several national grants, including the NMRC Transition Award (TA), MOE Tier 1 grant, and NMRC-Clinician Scientist – Individual Research grant – New Investigator Grant. Her work has been published in high-impact journals such as Blood, Allergy and Nature Medicine. Youjia also enjoys teaching; she mentors medical students as well as science students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Youjia holds an MBChB (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh, and is both a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (UK) and a fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore. Additionally, she holds a Master of Clinical Investigation from the National University of Singapore, and a PhD from Duke-NUS Medical School.