Researcher
Kong-Peng Lam is the Executive Director of the A*STAR Singapore Immunology Network (A*STAR SIgN). He is also a Professor in the Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, Physiology, and Paediatrics at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, as well as an Adjunct Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Nanyang Technological University. He obtained his PhD degree in immunology from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, US. He then carried out postdoctoral research at the Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany, working to understand B cell biology and development.
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