B.A., MSc, PhD 

 

Head, Singapore Infectious Disease Clinical Research Network Senior Consultant, National Centre for Infectious Diseases 

Associate Professor Barnaby Young graduated in Medicine with a B.A. in Genetics from the University of Cambridge. He has a Masters in Infectious Diseases from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a doctorate for his work on Influenza Vaccination in the Tropics from the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. A/Prof Young is Head of the Singapore Clinical Infectious Diseases Research Network (SCRN), and is lead for the Programme for Research in Epidemic Preparedness and REsponse (PREPARE) database core. He is a Senior Consultant at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases and Tan Tock Seng Hospital. In addition to conducting clinical trials of treatment and vaccines, his current research involves the study of the epidemiology, clinical characteristics and immune response to respiratory viruses including SARS-CoV-2, influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). He is the principal investigator of the Sing-CoV study, Singapore's first controlled human infection study.