Dr. Swaine Chen | Senior Investigator
NUS, Genome Insititute of Singapore

Swaine Chen received his Ph.D. in Developmental Biology and an M.D. from Stanford University in 2004. He became interested in applying computational tools to infectious diseases during his post-doc in the lab of Scott Hultgren, Ph.D. at Washington University. Since 2010, he has been a Senior Research Scientist at the Genome Institute of Singapore and an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore in the Department of Medicine, doing research on new computational methods for probing host-pathogen interactions. By focusing on evolutionary methods, the pathways most relevant for pathogen survival and thus most interesting from a therapeutic perspective may be identified. He has worked specifically on E. coli that cause urinary tract infections, but the computational methods are easily generalized to other infectious diseases.