Kaiwen Chen

Biography

Assistant Professor Chen Kaiwen obtained his PhD in Immunology in 2015 from the University of Queensland for his work on neutrophil inflammasomes. Subsequently, with the support a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Incoming Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Swiss Government Excellence Fellowship (ESKAS), Kaiwen relocated to The University of Lausanne, Switzerland where he gained further expertise on cell death and inflammation. In 2020, Kaiwen is recruited to the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at NUS as an Assistant Professor.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD (Immunology) University of Queensland, Australia
• Bsc Hons Class I University of Queensland, Australia

RESEARCH AREAS

• Infectious Diseases : Emerging Bacteria and Viral Diseases
• Immunology : Inflammation

RESEARCH INTEREST(S)

• Cell death
• Inflammasomes
• Innate immunity
• Gasdermin