Ooi Eng Eong

Ooi Eng Eong, Ph.D., BMBS, FRCPath, is a Professor and Deputy Director of the Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme at the Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. He also holds an appointment as a Professor at Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Prof Ooi plays a key role in ongoing efforts by Duke-NUS to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 and was instrumental to the Duke-NUS and Arcturus partnership. Dr. Ooi is the recipient of the Clinician-Scientist (Senior Investigator) Award by the National Medical Research Council of Singapore in 2010, 2014, and 2018. Prof Ooi completed his medical studies at the University of Nottingham and thereafter pursued research training in molecular epidemiology under the mentorship of now Emeritus Professor Chan Soh Ha at the Department of Microbiology, National University of Singapore.