Professor
Zhidong
Zhang
Professor
Zhidong
Zhang
College of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine,The Southwest Minzu University
Biography
2020 to present: Professor in Veterinary Virology,College of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine,The Southwest Minzu University,Chengdu, Sichuan, China
2013 to 2020: Head of Viral Diseases in Grazing Animals Programme, State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences，Lanzhou, China.
2010 to 2013: Head of Section of Vesicular Diseases, National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
2004 to 2010: Head of Pathogenesis of Viral Vesicular Disease Group, Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, Woking, UK.
Research interests
Pathogenesis of Veterinary Viral Disease and Control
Discipline
Virology Host species
Cattle Pigs Small ruminants Pathogen
Viruses Viruses›African swine fever virus Viruses›Capripoxvirus Viruses›Foot-and-mouth disease virus Viruses›Peste des petits ruminants virus Viruses›Poxviruses Viruses›Rabies virus Stage of vaccine development
Antigen discovery and immunogen design Pre-clinical trials