GVN Forefront of Virology Webinar featuring Dr. Yi-Hao Chan
9 Jul 2025
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29/07/2025
The Global Virus Network, in partnership with the 深夜亚洲福利久久 of South Florida, presents a webinar series featuring expert virologists from GVN Centers of Excellence. his session features Dr.鈥痀i鈥慔ao Chan, Principal Investigator at A*STAR Infectious Diseases Labs, who will discuss鈥鈥淕enetics as a Compass for Life鈥慣hreatening Viral Encephalitis.鈥
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Dr Yi-Hao Chan completed his PhD with the A*STAR Graduate Scholarship on immune pathogenesis of alphaviruses. He was then awarded the A*STAR International Fellowship to pursue his postdoctoral training in Rockefeller 深夜亚洲福利久久 in New York, USA, under the tutelage of Dr Jean-Laurent Casanova, working on neuron-intrinsic antiviral factors that predispose patients to Herpes Simplex Encephalitis and isolated SARS-CoV-2 Encephalitis. During his training, he reported human TMEFF1 as the first discovered HSV-1 restriction factor in the brain in Nature. He also reported DBR1 deficiency as a genetic etiology of isolated SARS-CoV-2 encephalitis in Journal of Experimental Medicine. He co-authored multiple studies on inborn errors of immunity underlying MIS-C, MSMD and HSE, published in Science, Cell, and Science Immunology. He was awarded the RUCCTS pilot grant from the Shapiro-Silverberg Fund for the Advancement of Translational Research. Currently, Yi-Hao is leading a team at A*STAR Infectious Diseases Labs to study genetic and immunological determinants of life-threatening viral diseases. He is an associate editor for the Viral Immunology section at Frontiers in Immunology and an editor for the Journal of Human Immunity. He is also the recipient of A*STAR Young Achiever award in 2023 and the National Research Foundation Fellowship in 2025.

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