 Prof. Linfa Wang
Professor in Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme
Duke-NUS Medical School
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Title:
Bat-inspired immunity lessons
Abstract:
While bats are famous/infamous for the deadly viruses they host, including Hendra/Nipal, Ebola/Marburg and SARS-CoV-1/2, they also display unusual biological features such as long lifespan and resistance to diseases. For the last decade, we have identified several unique features of bat immunity which we can learn and apply to human health in general. In this talk, I will share some of our findings focusing on the benefit of bats with a more effective balanced immune system, focusing on the inflammasome pathway.
Biography:
Linfa Wang is a professor of the Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases at Duke-NUS Medical School, and the inaugural executive director of PREPARE, Ministry of Health, Singapore. He is an international leader in the field of emerging zoonotic viruses, virus-host interaction and bat biology/immunology. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, he has served/is serving on multiple WHO committees for COVID-19, including the WHO IHR Emergency Committee. He is recently appointed lead of the newly established WHO Collaborative Open Research Consortium (CORC) on coronavirus. Prof Wang has more than 550 scientific publications, including papers in Cell, Nature, Science, NEJM and Lancet. Prof Wang was elected to the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering 2010, the American Academy of Microbiology 2021, the Australian Academy of Sciences in 2023 and Singapore National Academy of Science 2024. He received the Singapore President Science Award in 2021.
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