Biography
Laurent Renia obtained his PhD in 1991 from University Pierre et Marie Curie (now Sorbonne University) in Paris, France and did his post-doctoral New York University (1991-1992). He then returned to Paris in 1993 where he obtained a permanent position as junior research scientist at the French National Institute of Health (INSERM) in the INSERM Unit 313 at the Hopital Pitie-Salpetriere in Paris. He moved to the INSERM Unit 445 at the Institut Cochin in Paris where he started his own group in 1997. Between 2001-2006, he became research director at INSERM, co-director and director of the Department of Immunology at the Institut Cochin. He joined SIgN in 2007. He was Executive Director from 2013 to 2020. He was also the founding Executive Director of the A*STAR ID Labs (A*STAR) from 2020 to 2021. He is now Professor of infectious Diseases and director of the respiratory and Infectious Diseases Program in Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University. He is also a Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at NTU and a senior fellow and principal investigator of the A*STAR ID Labs. He holds adjunct position to the French National Institute of Health (INSERM). He has published more than 330 articles and book chapters. He is an Academic Editor for Infection and Immunity, PLoS ONE, Infection and Immunity, Microbial Pathogenesis, Microbial cell and Frontiers in Immunology.
Adjunct Positions
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Microbiology, National University of Singapore, November 2013-Present
- Adjunct Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, March 2012-Present
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 2011-Present
Research Focus
His scientific interests cover the immunology of infectious disease (malaria and arboviruses) and newly emerging viruses (SARS-CoV-2) to the development of new immunological, assays and animal models that can be used to study communicable and non-communicable diseases (such as cancer).
Lab Members
| Postdocs (PhD) | Research Officers | PhD/Undergraduate Students |
| Zi Wei CHANG | Pei Xiang HOR | Weiyi TANG |
| Adeline CHUA | Cheryl LOH | Jing Wen ANG |
| Yun Shan GOH | Yong Jie TAN | |
Angeline ROUERS
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| Ken LOH |
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| Haitong MAO | | |
Sher Ney CHONG
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| Wei Li LING | | |
Publications
Laurent Renia's ID Labs affiliated publications (last update Jul 2021).