Professor Zhu, Huachen 朱華晨
- Discovery of novel virus species and unknown virome in animals and humans;
- Ecology and evolution of emerging RNA viruses;
- Molecular basis of the pathogenicity and transmissibility of influenza viruses;
- Next generation sequencing and its applications in the study of emerging infectious diseases;
- Oncolytic viruses and virotherapy.
Dr Huachen Zhu is Assistant Professor at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Adjunct Professor at the Shantou University (STU). She serves as Associate Director of the Joint Institute of Virology (STU/HKU) and the State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases (HKU-Shenzhen Branch).
Dr Zhu’s research field is focused on mechanisms that lead to the virus emergence at the human and animal interface. In the past five years, she has identified the zoonotic sources, transmission routes, evolutionary pathways and precursors leading to the genesis of multiple severe viral threats to human health. Her work was repeatedly accepted for publication in Nature and Science, the top two scientific journals in the category of Multidisciplinary Sciences.
Dr Zhu’s research has attracted funding from the NIH of the USA, the Welcome Trust, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Shenzhen high-end talents program, The Top-tier University Scheme of Guangdong, and the Hong Kong government sources. She was awarded Promising Investigator Prize by the International Society for Influenza and other Respiratory Virus Diseases (ISIRV, 2013), and received HKU Research Output Prize or Faculty Outstanding Research Output Award every year since 2011, and Outstanding Young Researcher Award of HKU in 2016. She is also one of the First Prize winners of the National Medical Science and Technology Award (CMA 2015) and the National Preventive Medicine Award (CPMA 2015).
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