Current Positions

Professor, Medical Microbiology
Investigator, Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba

Education

1983 M.D. Suzhou University of Medicine, China
Specialty: Medicine
1986 M.Sc. Virology Department. National Institute for Control of Pharmaceutical and Biological Products, Beijing, China.
Specialty: Virology and Vaccine development.
1996 Ph.D. Molecular Biology Program, Department of microbiology and immunology, University of Montreal,
Specialty: Molecular Biology and Retrovirology

Research Focus

The one of goals of our lab is to provide important insights into mechanisms of how HIV hijacks various host cellular proteins and cellular pathways for continue its replication and dissemination.

Meanwhile, our lab has developed a novel and highly efficient DC-targeting vaccination technology, and by using this technology, our lab has developed and/or is generating new DC-targeting vaccine approaches against HIV, influenza, SARS-CoV-2, and other viral infections. We hope that our vaccine development research can make significant contributions to combat against HIV, SARS-CoV-2, influenza and other emergent viral infections.

Research Interests

My current interests: The development and characterization of new DC-targeting vaccines against HIV, influenza, SARS-CoV-2, and HPV viral infections.