The Trinity of COVID-19: Immunity, Inflammation and Intervention
Published: 02 May 2020
The “COVID-19: Updates from Singapore” weekly webinar series is a forum for leading clinicians, scientists, public health officials and policy makers to share insights into their field of study. The fourth session was held on Thursday 30 April.
Invited guest speaker for this week, Associate Professor Paul MacAry, brings with him years of multi-disciplinary research expertise as Director of Life Sciences Institute & Chairman CREATE-HUJ Consortium, and independent investigator at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the National University of Singapore since 2005. From an immunologist’s perspective, Assoc Prof MacAry structured his lecture to focus on three broad areas: immunity, inflammation and intervention.
In his talk, Assoc Prof MacAry summarised what has been uncovered about COVID-19 and its epidemiological origins. He continued to address theories of the likelihood of immunity in various populations and observed inflammations within the body seen in those who have been infected. Assoc Prof MacAry provided a comprehensive perspective on how indications of immunity and inflammation can sufficiently inform strategies of intervention that would aid in vaccine development while touching on actual therapeutic strategies that are currently in Singapore’s national framework.
A founding member and Associate Editor of Nature Vaccines, Assoc Prof Paul MacAry and his research have been featured in covering articles on the BBC, CNN and Reuters. In the commercial arena, he is also the founding scientist for three biotechnology companies, BSCR LTD founded in Cambridge in 2004, Antibody Cradle LTD founded in Singapore in 2012 and Singapore MABs LTD founded in 2016.
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Join us for the next “COVID-19: Updates from Singapore” session on 7 May 2020, where guest speaker Assoc Prof Alex Cook, Vice Dean (Research) of the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, will be sharing about “Modelling the COVID-19 outbreak in Singapore: Science Fact or Science Fiction!”. Click here to register.
