Kuan Rong Chan is a Principal Research Scientist in the Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases at Duke-NUS Medical School. He received his undergraduate from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and obtained his PhD from the NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering. He then did his postdoctoral training in Duke-NUS Medical School and is a Principal Research Scientist since 2018.

He specializes in the study of host immune responses to flaviviral infections and vaccines, and aims to understand the molecular mechanisms of how flaviviruses exploit host factors and the host microenvironment to facilitate infection. His research is funded by the Khoo Postdoctoral Fellowship Award and the Young Individual Research Grant from the National Medical Research Council to investigate how pre-existing antibodies can augment dengue virus infection in human monocytes.