Linfa Wang

Linfa Wang is Professor and Director of the Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.

Wang earned his Bachelor's degree at the East China Normal University in Shanghai in 1982 obtained his PhD at the University of California, Davis in 1986.

Wang's early research was at the Monash Centre for Molecular Biology and Medicine and in 1990, he joined the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), at the Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL), where he played a leading role in identifying bats as the natural host of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus.