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Professor Eng Eong Ooi received his B.M.B.S. in 1993 from the University of Nottingham, earned a Ph.D. degree in Molecular Epidemiology from the National University of Singapore in 1998, and received a FRCPath in Virology from the Royal College of Pathologists, UK, in 2013. Currently, he is the Deputy Director of the Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme at DUKE-NUS Medical School and hold Professor appointments at the Department of Microbiology & Immunology and the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore. With Dr Jenny Low, Pr Ooi is a co-director of ViREMiCS, the Viral Research And Experimental Medicine Centre @SingHealth Duke-NUS.

The Ooi research laboratory aims to address the critical gaps in knowledge in dengue by positioning itself at the interface between clinical epidemiology, virology and immunology. Researchers combine basic virological and virus-host interaction studies with clinical investigations and experimental medicine.