Researcher

Laurent Renia is the Founding Director and now Senior Fellow at the A*STAR Infectious Diseases Labs (ID Labs), established on 1 July, 2020. He earned his PhD degree in 1991 at the University Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France, where he studied immune response against malaria. Before joining A*STAR, Renia was a Research Director at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) and Director of the Department of Immunology at the Institut Cochin. After joining A*STAR’s Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) in 2007, he served as its Executive Director from 2014 to 2020. He has published more than 350 articles and book chapters on research topics on infection, immunity and oncoimmunology.
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