​                      Head, NCID Research Clinic

                     Lead, NCID SCRN (Singapore Infectious Disease Clinical Research Network) 

                     Senior Consultant, Department of Infectious Diseases NCID

                     Director (Singapore ID Clinical Research network), CDA

                     Credentials
                      MB BChir, MRCP, PhD

                     Clinical interests                                                                                                                           Clinical trials of therapeutics and vaccines; Controlled Human Infection                                       Studies; Outbreak research and pandemic preparedness

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A/Prof Barnaby Young is an infectious disease senior consultant at NCID and TTSH and jointly appointed at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. He is Director of the Singapore Infectious Disease Clinical Research Network (SCRN) at the Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA) and co-ordinates prospective observational studies and randomised controlled trials in collaboration with public hospitals and polyclinics in Singapore. He is also the Clinical Research and Databases core lead in the Programme for Research in Epidemic Preparedness and Response (PREPARE), Ministry of Health. His research interests are in respiratory viral infections including SARS-CoV-2 and influenza, and in 2024 began Singapore's first human challenge study funded via an NMRC Clinician Scientist Award. He has held >$10 million in research grants as principal investigator and published >150 peer reviewed papers in top journals such as NEJM, Lancet, JAMA and Science.