主讲专家：王林发院士
时间：2022年9月12日14:00
报告专家简介：Linfa Wang is a professor of the Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases at Duke-NUS Medical School. He is an international leader in the field of emerging zoonotic viruses and virus-host interaction. His current research focuses on why bats are such an important reservoir for emerging viruses and on how we can learn from bats to make us more resilience to infection and diseases in general. He is a member of the WHO SARS Scientific Research Advisory Committee and played a key role in identification of bats as the natural host of SARS-like viruses. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, he has served/is serving on multiple WHO committees for COVID-19, including the WHO IHR Emergency Committee. Prof Wang has more than 500 scientific publications, including papers in Science, Nature, NEJM and Lancet. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief for the Virology Journal. Prof Wang was elected to the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 2010 and the American Academy of Microbiology in 2021. He received the Singapore President Science Award in 2021.
报告内容简介：I was born in Shanghai in 1960 and had a dream to be a “handyman”, someone with engineering skills to design, make and repair things. However, I was “accidently” selected to study Biology at the East China Normal University in 1978 when the universities in China reopened after the cultural revolution. As I did not have any interest in anything live, I reluctantly took biochemistry/molecular biology as my major for my BS and PhD studies to stay away from animals and plants. In 1990, I “accidently” shifted my career into virology and emerging infectious disease research when I was offered a job at the CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory. Since then, I have been focusing my research on emerging viruses from bats and on the unique biology and immunology of bats trying to understand why bats, as the only flying mammals on earth, can live so long, don’t suffer from cancer and other disease common in humans and carry a lot of deadly viruses without display any diseases. My pioneer work in this area earned me the nickname “batman”.
In this presentation, I will share the story of my career and the exciting science that my team is doing right now, with a special focus on COVID-19 and the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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