INFECTIOUS DISEASES SEMINAR SERIES
Professor Yu-Mei Wen （闻玉梅）
Institute of Medical Microbiology
“Persistent Infections-Mechanisms and Control Strategies”
Time: 9:00 am, November 20 (Tuesday)
Place: Medical Science Building B323
Introduction: : Yu-Mei Wen MD is Professor and Honorary Director of Institute of Medical Microbiology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China and a Professor of Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology, Ministry of Education/Ministry of Health. Her interests are in research of molecular virology and immunology of hepatitis B virus, and in microbial functional genomics. She is one of the pioneers in basic and applied studies on developing therapeutic vaccines for chronic hepatitis B patients. Prof Wen graduated from Shanghai Medical University and has been a WHO fellow at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Fogarty visiting scholar at NIAID, National Institutes of Health, U.S.A.. She has published 220 articles, and has edited/co-edited 8 books, including Viral Hepatitis in China-Problems and Control Strategies (Vol 19, Mongraphs in Virology Karger publisher, 1992). Recent works on microbes and infections (World Scientific publisher, 2009). She was elected member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1999. She was member of the Editorial Board of Archives on Virology (2008-2011), coeditor-in-chief of emerging Microbes and Infections, and editor-in-chief of the Chinese journal.
Light Refreshments will be served!!!
