A/Prof
Yunn-Hwen Gan

Co-Director, Infectious Diseases Translational Research Program
Department of Biochemistry
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore

Yunn-Hwen Gan graduated from Purdue University with a B.Sc. (Honours) in Molecular Biology and University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Ph.D. in medical microbiology and immunology.

Her current research focuses on Klebsiella induced liver abscess, a prominent disease in Asia, particularly in regions of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea. Her work involves identifying bacterial virulence factors of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae responsible for causing liver abscess. Her team examines host and bacterial factors that affect gut colonization and translocation. Her recent works have identified the alarming trend of the convergence of multidrug resistance and hypervirulence in K. pneumoniae in Singapore’s hospital settings. Her ongoing research investigates how antibiotic resistance genes on highly evolved and adapted plasmids dominant in clinical bacterial isolates are spreading among bacterial populations, and strategies to stop the spread.

She has also established multidisciplinary collaborations with chemists, clinicians and computational biologists to examine novel strategies to treat antibiotic resistant Enterobacteriaceae bacteria. One of such strategies is to establish a synthetic commensal community of bacteria to be used as probiotics for decolonization from the gut. Another strategy is to partner with AI scientists to employ synergy testing of FDA-approved compounds, including those with no known antibacterial activity on their own, on multidrug resistant bacteria.

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