Kuan Rong Chan is a Senior Principal Research Scientist in the Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases at Duke-NUS Medical School. He received his undergraduate from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and obtained his PhD from the NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering. He then completed his postdoctoral training at Duke-NUS Medical School and has been a Principal Research Scientist since 2018. He specializes in the study of host immune responses to viruses infections and vaccines and aims to understand the molecular mechanisms of how viruses exploit host factors and the host microenvironment to facilitate infection. His research is funded by the OF-IRG from the National Medical Research Council.
