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Associate Professor Kevin Pethe is known for his contribution in the area of chemical biology and antibiotic drug discovery for tuberculosis and mycobacterial diseases.

He is teaching microbiology, antibiotic drug development, infectious diseases and pharmacokinetics to undergraduate and graduate students in the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, the College of Science, and the College of Engineering. He is also acting as personal tutorial for undergraduate medical students of the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine.

Among other services, he is serving as academic chairperson for the NTU Institutional Biosafety Committee since 2016.

Before joining NTU, he gained expertise in Research & Development in the private sector as research investigator and project manager at the Novartis Institute for Tropical Disease (Singapore) from 2004 to 2011. In 2011, he took a position of principal investigator at Institut Pasteur Korea to pursue his interest on host-pathogen interactions and chemical biology applied to tuberculosis and multidrug resistant bacteria. He was promoted to head of the department of disease biology & chemical genomics in 2013, and nominated acting CEO of Institut Pasteur Korea the same year, two positions that refined his leadership skills.

His professional experience includes evaluating research grants for various National and international agencies. He is review panel member for the Open Fund Young Individual Research Grant scheme (Singapore Ministry of Health), and for the French National Research Foundation (ANR).  

He received his PhD in genetics and molecular biology from Institut Pasteur and University of Lille II (France), and received his postdoctoral training in cellular microbiology at Cornell University.