Bio
Yaw Shin Ooi, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) Programme at Duke-NUS Medical School. He received his PhD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, under the mentorship of Dr. Margaret Kielian, and completed his postdoctoral training with Dr. Jan Carette at Stanford University.
His research focuses on identifying host cellular factors that influence susceptibility to viral infection—specifically, host dependency factors that viruses hijack to enter cells and replicate, as well as restriction factors that constitute the host's innate antiviral defenses. These virus-host interactions determine whether infection proceeds or is halted by the immune response.
Currently, his lab investigates the molecular mechanisms underlying infections by medically important RNA viruses, with a particular emphasis on mosquito-borne viruses (including Alphaviruses and Flaviviruses) and respiratory viruses (such as Paramyxoviruses and Orthoreoviruses).
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
Yeshiva University, United States
Master of Science
Yeshiva University, United States
Master of Science
University of Malaya, Malaysia
BSc (Genet & Molecular Bio) Hons w Dist
University of Malaya, Malaysia