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Prof Peter Preiser is Professor of Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Before this he was Chair of the School of Biological Sciences for over six years. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in Biology from University of Delaware, USA, in 1981. After his postdoctoral appointment at Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, USA, Prof Preiser joined London’s National Institute for Medical Research as a Senior Research Scientist. In 2003 he left London to join NTU’s School of Biological Sciences (SBS) as an Associate Professor and was later promoted to full Professor in 2009.

His research interest focus on the molecular mechanisms by which the malaria parasite is able to avoid host immunity and adapt to changes in the host cell environment. He has extensive experience in malaria biology and developing quantitative proteomic approaches along with transcriptional profiling to understand complex biological processes in relation to host parasite interaction.

He is the co-Lead PI of the AMR inter-disciplinary research group with the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), Prof Preiser has collaborated with top research institutes around the world and has published over 100 top-quality international journal papers.

Prof Preiser has often been invited as an expert reviewer for numerous local/international funding agencies and international journals including Science, Nature, Nature Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and so on. He serves on the scientific advisory board of the French Alliance for Parasitology and Health Care (ParaFrap) and has organised a number of international meetings in Singapore.