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
Wen-Quan Zou
Associate Professor
Departments of Pathology and Neurology
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
United States
Departments of Pathology and Neurology
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
United States
Henrique Serezani
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Indiana University
United States
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Indiana University
United States
Will Xia
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Wichita State University
United States
Department of Biological Sciences
Wichita State University
United States
Guoshun Wang
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology
LSU Health New Orleans
United States
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology
LSU Health New Orleans
United States
Subash Sad
Professor
Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology
University of Ottawa
Canada
Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology
University of Ottawa
Canada
Olga S. Latinovic
Assistant Professor
Institute of Human Virology
University of Maryland School of Medicine
United States
Institute of Human Virology
University of Maryland School of Medicine
United States
Frank Portugal
Associate Professor
Department of Biology
The Catholic University of America
United States
Department of Biology
The Catholic University of America
United States
