Tenure Track Faculty Staff Details



Ooi Yaw Shin

Assistant Professor, Signature Research Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases

Duke-NUS Medical School

Bio

Yaw Shin is an Assistant Professor in the Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) program at Duke-NUS Medical School. He received his doctorate from Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Mentor: Margaret Kielian), New York, and later pursued his postdoctoral training at Stanford University (Mentor: Jan Carette), California. He has a long-established interest in discovering cellular factors (host dependency factors and restrictions factors) that determine susceptibility and permissivity to virus infections. Host dependency factors are keys hijacked by viruses to penetrate cellular barriers and rewire host cells for promoting viral protein translation, genome replication, assembly, exit, and spread. In contrast, viruses must evade antiviral innate immunity to avoid tolls during the infection process, especially by antagonizing host restriction factors. Currently, his team's focus is centered on mosquito-borne RNA viruses and human respiratory RNA viruses – all pose serious threats to global public health.

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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

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