[EANF-01] Current Findings on Acute Encephalitis via Flavivirus Infection: A form of Zoonosis

[EANF-01-4] Dissecting the neurovirulence and viscerotropism determinants of Japanese Encephalitis virus

^○Cheng-Feng Qin^1,2 (1.Department of Virology, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, China, 2.State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing 100071, China)

Cheng-Feng Qin obtained his B.Sc. degree in Microbiology in Wuhan University, and Ph.D degree in Microbiology in Academy of Military Medical Sciences. His primary research interests focus on the pathogenesis and vaccine development of mosquito-borne flavivirus. Current ongoing projects include: 1) to identify and characterize viral virulence determinants and regulatory RNA elements; 2) to rationally design live-attenuated vaccine by reverse genetic technology; and 3) to improve vaccine stability and efficacy by using genetic and chemical methods.
Cheng-Feng Qin has been awarded as the Newton Advanced Fellowship from the UK Academy of Medical Sciences, the Young Investigator Program from the Edward Jenner Vaccine Society, the National Excellent Young Scientist Program of NSFC, the joint Award of Institute Merieux and Chinese Society of Microbiology, and the ADVAC fellowship from Foundation Merieux.
He has published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers in Science, Immunity, Lancet Infect Dis, eLife, Cell Stem Cell, Cell Host Microbes, PNAS, Nature Commun, Cell Res, J Virol, etc and held a dozen of national and PCT patents on vaccine candidate and related technologies. He also serves as the editor or editorial board member of several international journals including Scientific Reports, BMC Infectious Diseases, npj Vaccines, Virol Sin, etc.