Editorial Board Member - JIID
Qingzhong Kong
Associate ProfessorDepartment of Pathology
Case Western Reserve University
United States
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Kong graduated with a B.S. in Biochemistry at Nanjing University, China, in 1987. He went on to earn an M.S. in Molecular Biology. In 1996, Dr. Kong completed a Ph.D. in Molecular Virology at the University of Massachusetts. From 1996 to 2000, he was a Research Associate in Molecular Immunology at Yale University, after which he joined the Department of Pathology as an assistant professor. Dr. Kong is currently an Associate Professor of Pathology and he has secondary appointments at the Department of Neurology and the National Center for Regenerative Medicine.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Development of gene/cell therapies against diabetes, cancer and other diseases using rAAV/non-viral DNA and muscle stem cells
- Public health risks of animal prions (Chronic Wasting Disease of elk and deer and atypical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy of cattle) and animal modeling of various human prion diseases (especially CJD)
- Roles of the normal cellular prion protein in the biology and pathology of skeletal muscle and brain
- Etiology of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (CJD) in human.
Other Editorial Board Members - JIID
Janet Liversidge
Professor
School of Medicine and Dentistry
University of Aberdeen Institute of Medical Sciences
United Kingdom
School of Medicine and Dentistry
University of Aberdeen Institute of Medical Sciences
United Kingdom
Huatao Guo
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
University of Missouri School of Medicine
United States
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
University of Missouri School of Medicine
United States
Mario P. S. Chin
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Temple University
United States
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Temple University
United States
PAULA M. CHILTON
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
University of Louisville
United States
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
University of Louisville
United States
Daniel Lacorazza
Associate Professor
Departments of Pathology and Immunology
Baylor College of Medicine
United States
Departments of Pathology and Immunology
Baylor College of Medicine
United States
Ramesh C. Gupta
Professor of Chemistry
School of Agricultural Sciences and Rural Development (SASRD)
Nagaland University
India
School of Agricultural Sciences and Rural Development (SASRD)
Nagaland University
India
Will Xia
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Wichita State University
United States
Department of Biological Sciences
Wichita State University
United States
