Areas of Focus
- Infectious Disease Research
- Vaccine Development
- Antiviral Drug Development
- Rapid Diagnostic Technology
Work Experience
- Former Director of the Virus Immunology Research Laboratory at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Postdoctoral research at Scripps Research Institute and UC-San Diego
- Worked in antiviral drug development in the US pharmaceutical industry
Academic Background & Achievements
- Ph.D. in Virology: University of Pennsylvania
- Authored the book 'Nucleic Acid Isothermal Amplification Technology and Its Application'
- Translated 'Clinical Virology'
- Co-authored 'Molecular Gene Pharmacology' and 'New Drug Discovery and Development Technology Platform'
- Applied for over 10 patents, received 8 invention patents including an international patent for 'Soluble Herpes Virus Protein Complex Vaccine'
Publications
- Nucleic Acid Isothermal Amplification Technology and Its Application, Tao Peng
- Clinical Virology, Translated by Tao Peng
- Molecular Gene Pharmacology, Co-authored by Tao Peng
- New Drug Discovery and Development Technology Platform, Co-authored by Tao Peng