Yen Hung Chow

Biography:

Dr. Yen-Hung Chow is a senior principal Investigator and professor at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology (NIIDV), National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), Taiwan since 2019 until now. He studies the respiratory syncytia virus and enteroviruses virulence and host pathogenesis, and the relevant vaccine development. He received his PhD degree in 1997 at the Graduate School of Life Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taiwan. He then joined the research group of Prof. Dimitrov at the Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of health, USA in 2000-2002 for his postdoctoral fellow. He then moved to the Department of Infectious Disease, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA  to be a senior postdoctoral fellow in 2002-2005.  He obtained the position of an assistant Investigator at the NIIDV, NHRI in 2006.  He has published more than 60 research articles in SCI journals and over 15 granted patents.