Dr Kevin SW Tan, Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
National University of Singapore

Kevin SW TAN is Associate Professor at and Head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, National University of Singapore. He is also Vice-Dean, Graduate Studies, at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Head, Innovation in Graduate Studies, at the National University Health System. His curiosity for parasites originated from his graduate student days at NUS and blossomed during his postdoctoral stint at The Rockefeller University, New York City. He is relieved to be awarded tenure in 2011, and can now spend more time on social issues, such as public science education. Kevin’s research focuses on understanding how parasites commit suicide and exploiting such knowledge to trigger death mechanisms as an anti-parasite strategy. He is also interested in the problem of drug resistance and his team has recently come up with new ways to find drugs that overcome resistance. More recently, his team has embarked on projects focusing on the role of single cell eukaryotes (SCEs) in the host microbiome. He hopes that the research from his team would accelerate the finding of new cures for parasitic diseases.

Dr Yongliang Zhang, Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
National University of Singapore

Dr Yongliang ZHANG obtained his PhD in Microbiology in 2002 from the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. He performed his postdoctoral research in the Department of Immunology, University of Washington, USA, and the Department of Immunology, the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, USA. He was an Instructor in the Department of Immunology, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center before he joined the Department of Microbiology and the LSI Immunology Programme, NUS, as an Assistant Professor in 2009. He was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure in 2017. Research in his laboratory focuses on immune response to microbial pathogens, microbiome in health and diseases, and inflammation & cancer.

Dr Ch’ng Jun Hong, Lecturer
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
National University of Singapore

Dr Junhong CH’NG completed his PhD in Microbiology in 2012 from the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. He went to Karolinska Institute for his postdoctoral training between 2012 and 2016 before returning to NUS where he is currently a Lecturer. His laboratory is interested in microbial interactions in biofilms and his teaching portfolio includes general microbiology, bacteriology and parasitology.

Dr Chin Wen Png, Senior Research Fellow
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
National University of Singapore

Dr Chin Wen Png obtained his PhD in Medical Sciences in 2009 from the University of Queensland (Australia). He was a Lecturer and Module Chair for the Immunology module in Republic Polytechnic (Singapore) before continuing his research in NUS where he is currently a Senior Research Fellow. His research interests include understating the functions of key signaling molecules in the pathogenesis of colorectal cancer and the role of microbiome in gastrointestinal diseases.