Dr. Qiuhong Wang, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Research Scientist

Bachelor of Medicine (M.D. equivalent) majoring in Preventive Medicine (Beijing Medical University, China)1994

Research staff member in the Institute of Virology in China, developed a sensitive assay for the detection of hepatitis A virus from shellfish, which greatly enhanced the prevention of hepatitis A virus transmission through contaminated shellfish.

Master's student majoring in Molecular Virology at the University of Tokyo, performed the first comprehensive genetic analysis of human and animal astroviruses. This work provided detailed sequence analysis of the complete structural protein of astroviruses, critical for comparative virology and diagnostic assays.

Ph.D study at Dr. Linda Saif's lab at the Food Animal Health Research Program at the OARDC, The Ohio State University, I discovered new noroviruses and sapoviruses from domestic pigs and demonstrated that porcine noroviruses and sapoviruses are closely related to human noroviruses and sapoviruses, respectively.

Developed sensitive methods for the detection of these newly identified porcine caliciviruses and performed the first prevalence study of these viruses showing that some porcine norovirus and sapovirus strains were widely distributed in pig populations. These results are very important to public health because they suggest that emerging human caliciviruses associated with new epidemic strains of unknown origin may evolve from animal sources and that scientists need to survey animal reservoirs to predict or prevent human calicivirus infections. Based on our data, we were first to propose that human norovirus infections may be zoonotic. Subsequently, more evidence to support this hypothesis has been reported worldwide.

Post-doctoral training at the Medical College of Wisconsin, worked on the immune evasion mechanisms of herpesvirus 7.

Research Scientist at FAHRP, OARDC, The Ohio State University working with Dr. Linda Saif, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a leading virologist and mucosal immunologist working on caliciviruses, human rotavirus vaccines and SARS-related coronaviruses.

Research on RNA viruses such as caliciviruses that infect both animals and humans. Because RNA viruses evolve quickly and change disease patterns and host tropisms, they are the leading cause of emerging disease in humans.

Current research focus is on enteric caliciviruses.

Qiuhong Wang, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor & Research Scientist
Food Animal Health Research Program
OARDC/The Ohio State University
Wooster, Ohio 44691
wang.655@osu.edu
(330)263-3740 (office)
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