Researcher

Laurent Rénia

Senior Fellow and Principal Investigator

A*STAR Infectious Diseases Labs (ID Labs)

Laurent Rénia earned his PhD in 1991 from the University Pierre et Marie Curie (now Sorbonne University) in Paris, France, and completed his post-doctoral work at New York University (1991-1992). He returned to Paris in 1993 as a junior research scientist at the French National Institute of Health (INSERM) and later started his own group at the Institut Cochin in 1997. From 2001 to 2006, he served as Research Director at INSERM and led the Department of Immunology at the Institut Cochin. In 2007, he joined SIgN, where he was Executive Director from 2013 to 2020, before becoming the founding Executive Director of A*STAR’s ID Labs (2020-2021). Currently, he is a Professor of Infectious Diseases and Director of the Respiratory and Infectious Diseases Program at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), as well as a Professor in NTU’s School of Biological Sciences and a Senior Fellow and Principal Investigator at ID Labs. He also holds an adjunct position at INSERM and has published over 330 articles and book chapters. Additionally, he serves as an Academic Editor for several journals, including Infection and Immunity and Frontiers in Immunology.

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