Samir Kumar-singh MD, PhD

Prof Samir Kumar-Singh is a certified medical doctor with a doctorate in Pathology and a Master degree in Laboratory Animals. He is a full-time research professor of Molecular Pathology at the Faculty of Medicine–Cell Biology & Histology at the University of Antwerp and is affiliated to the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute.

He has published a well-cited body of work on molecular pathology of cancer and neurodegeneration involving patient studies and mouse modeling. Professor Kumar-Singh serves on several review boards and international consortia. Relevant to the research performed at Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, his group is engaged in studying the pathomechanism of hospital acquired pneumonia especially ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and has developed an authentic rat VAP model and several acute and chronic rat/mouse pneumonia models to study disease pathogenesis and for biomarker discovery.