Prof Jenny Low

Prof Jenny Low

Prof Jenny Low is a Senior Consultant with the Department of Infectious Diseases in Singapore General Hospital and Professor at the Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme at Duke NUS Medical School. Concurrently, she is the Co-Director of the Viral Research and Experimental Medicine Centre @ SingHealth Duke-NUS (ViREMiCS) in the SingHealth Duke-NUS AMC, and Deputy Clinical and Scientific Director at the SingHealth Investigational Medicine Unit (IMU).

Prof Low has been immersed in clinical research for more than 20 years. She has a long track record in conducting proof of concept and early phase clinical trials in acute viral diseases. She has tested several first-in-human therapeutics and biologics in humans including a therapeutic anti-yellow fever virus antibody.

Her current research focus is on early phase adaptive clinical trials of viral therapeutics and vaccine development as well as understanding the role of the early immune responses in modulating the outcome of infection or vaccination. She has been twice awarded the National Clinician Scientist Award in 2016 and 2019 for her research in host immune response to viral infections.