Our People
Get to know our team players who diligently contributed to the research programme

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Primary Members

John CHEN

Associate Professor

Research Interests:
  • Staphylococcus
  • Aureus
  • MRSA
  • Bacteriophage
  • Transduction

Vincent CHOW

Associate Professor
Research Interests:
  • Viral Pathogenesis​
  • Animal Models of Microbial Disease​
  • Molecular Diagnosis and Epidemiology​

GAN Yunn Hwen

Associate Professor
Research Interests:
  • Novel strategies for targeting multidrug resistant enteric bacteria
  • Multidrug resistance plasmid transmission in clinical Gram-negative bacteria

Hsu Li Yang

Professor

Research Interests:
  • Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Genomics and Epidemiology
  • Bacterial antibiotic resistance: Epidemiology, Mechanisms, and Intervention

QU Kun

Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
  • Molecular and morphological characteristics of virus-host interactions.
  • Structure-guided design of antibodies and vaccines.
  • New methods in cryo-electron tomography and subtomogram averaging

Paul A. TAMBYAH

Professor

Research Interests:
  • Influenza
  • Catheter-associated UTI
  • Clinical trials, investigational agents and nosocomial infections

Niranjan NAGARAJAN

Associate Professor
Research Interests:
  • Computational Genomics
  • Metagenomics
  • Microbiome
  • Antimicrobial resistance
  • Viral genomics

Secondary Members

David ALLEN

Associate Professor
Research Interests:
  • ​Infections in immune compromised hosts

Yann BOUCHER

Associate Professor
Research Interests:
  • Enteric bacterial pathogens
  • Antimicrobial resistance
  • Genomic Epidemiology

Hannah CLAPHAM

Assistant Professor

Research Interests:
  • Infectious disease dynamics and control
  • Impact of vaccination
  • Dengue epidemiology and control

Raymond LIN

Associate Professor
Research Interests:
  • Public Health Microbiology
  • SARS-CoV-2, Influenza
  • Diagnostic Methods
  • Antimicrobial resistance

Matthew TAY

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Research Interests:
  • High-Throughput Antibody Discovery
  • Understanding coronavirus zoonotic transmission
  • Tackling Anti-Microbial Resistance

Adjunct Members

Marco VIGNUZZI

Associate Professor

Research Interests:
  • Self-amplifying RNA vaccines
  • Virus evolution
  • Virus-host interactions and OMICS approaches
  • AI-drug discovery and antivirals

Yin Xiang SETOH

Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
  • Mosquito-borne diseases
  • Zika virus
  • Vaccine development
  • Molecular virology
  • Virus-host interactions