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Singapore
2026

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Immunology

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National Ranking
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National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Immunology in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Immunology in Singapore Leader Award

Overview

Lin-Fa Wang is affiliated with Duke NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore. Their primary research fields include Medicine with a focus on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Immunology, Molecular Biology, and Animal Science and Zoology.

The scientist's research encompasses several main topics, including:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Animal Virus Infections Studies
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing

Lin-Fa Wang has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Chee Wah Tan
  • Danielle E. Anderson
  • Wan Ni Chia
  • David Chien Lye
  • Barnaby Edward Young

The scientist has published extensively in various venues, with the most frequent being:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Viruses

Some of the notable recent papers include:

  • "Epidemiologic Features and Clinical Course of Patients Infected With SARS-CoV-2 in Singapore," 2020, JAMA
  • "SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell immunity in cases of COVID-19 and SARS, and uninfected controls," 2020, Nature
  • "Infectious disease in an era of global change," 2021, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • "A SARS-CoV-2 surrogate virus neutralization test based on antibody-mediated blockage of ACE2-spike protein-protein interaction," 2020, Nature Biotechnology
  • "Early induction of functional SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells associates with rapid viral clearance and mild disease in COVID-19 patients," 2021, Cell Reports

Best Publications

  • Bats are natural reservoirs of SARS-like coronaviruses.

    Wendong Li;Zhengli Shi;Meng Yu;Wuze Ren

  • Epidemiologic Features and Clinical Course of Patients Infected With SARS-CoV-2 in Singapore.

    Barnaby Edward Young;Sean Wei Xiang Ong;Shirin Kalimuddin;Shirin Kalimuddin;Jenny G. Low;Jenny G. Low

  • SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell immunity in cases of COVID-19 and SARS, and uninfected controls.

    Nina Le Bert;Anthony T Tan;Kamini Kunasegaran;Christine Y L Tham

  • Isolation and characterization of a bat SARS-like coronavirus that uses the ACE2 receptor

    Xing Yi Ge;Jia Lu Li;Xing Lou Yang;Aleksei A. Chmura

  • Infectious disease in an era of global change.

    Rachel E. Baker;Ayesha S. Mahmud;Ian F. Miller;Ian F. Miller;Malavika Rajeev

  • A SARS-CoV-2 surrogate virus neutralization test based on antibody-mediated blockage of ACE2-spike protein-protein interaction.

    Chee Wah Tan;Wan Ni Chia;Xijian Qin;Pei Liu

  • Discovery of a rich gene pool of bat SARS-related coronaviruses provides new insights into the origin of SARS coronavirus

    Ben Hu;Lei Ping Zeng;Xing Lou Yang;Xing Yi Ge

  • Fatal swine acute diarrhoea syndrome caused by an HKU2-related coronavirus of bat origin.

    Peng Zhou;Hang Fan;Tian Lan;Xing-Lou Yang

  • Early induction of functional SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells associates with rapid viral clearance and mild disease in COVID-19 patients.

    Anthony T. Tan;Martin Linster;Chee Wah Tan;Nina Le Bert

  • Comparative Analysis of Bat Genomes Provides Insight into the Evolution of Flight and Immunity

    Guojie Zhang;Christopher Cowled;Zhengli Shi;Zhiyong Huang

  • Ecological dynamics of emerging bat virus spillover

    Raina K. Plowright;Raina K. Plowright;Peggy Eby;Peter J. Hudson;Ina L. Smith

  • Review of Bats and SARS

    Lin-Fa Wang;Zhengli Shi;Shuyi Zhang;Hume Field

  • Ephrin-B2 ligand is a functional receptor for Hendra virus and Nipah virus

    Matthew I. Bonaparte;Antony S. Dimitrov;Katharine N. Bossart;Gary Crameri

  • Hendra and Nipah viruses: different and dangerous

    Bryan T. Eaton;Christopher C. Broder;Deborah Middleton;Lin-Fa Wang

  • Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2016

    Claudio L. Afonso;Gaya K. Amarasinghe;Krisztián Bányai;Yīmíng Bào

  • Bat origin of human coronaviruses

    Ben Hu;Xingyi Ge;Lin Fa Wang;Zhengli Shi

  • Duration of antibody responses after severe acute respiratory syndrome

    Li Ping Wu;Nai Chang Wang;Yi Hua Chang;Xiang Yi Tian

  • Assessing Viral Shedding and Infectivity of Tears in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Patients.

    Ivan Yu Jun Seah;Danielle E. Anderson;Adrian Eng Zheng Kang;Linfa Wang

  • Effects of a major deletion in the SARS-CoV-2 genome on the severity of infection and the inflammatory response: an observational cohort study.

    Barnaby E Young;Barnaby E Young;Siew-Wai Fong;Siew-Wai Fong;Yi-Hao Chan;Tze-Minn Mak

  • Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2018

    Gaya K. Amarasinghe;Nidia G. Aréchiga Ceballos;Ashley C. Banyard;Christopher F. Basler

  • Evidence for SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses circulating in bats and pangolins in Southeast Asia.

    Supaporn Wacharapluesadee;Chee Wah Tan;Patarapol Maneeorn;Prateep Duengkae

  • Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2017

    Gaya K. Amarasinghe;Yīmíng Bào;Christopher F. Basler;Sina Bavari

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary Crameri
Gary Crameri Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness
Christopher C. Broder
Christopher C. Broder Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Bryan T. Eaton
Bryan T. Eaton Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness
Zhengli Shi
Zhengli Shi Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hume Field
Hume Field University of Queensland
Gilda Tachedjian
Gilda Tachedjian Burnet Institute
Norbert Nowotny
Norbert Nowotny University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Charles-Antoine Dutertre
Charles-Antoine Dutertre Institut Gustave Roussy
David T. S. Hayman
David T. S. Hayman Massey University
Alex D. Hyatt
Alex D. Hyatt Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness

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