Organizing Committee Member

Lanying Du

Lanying Du

Associate Member and Co-Head of Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute


New York Blood Centre


New York, USA


Biography

Dr. Lanying Du is an Associate Member and Co-Head of Viral Immunology Laboratory at Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute of New York Blood Center. She has over 10 years of experience in designing and developing effective vaccines against emerging infectious viruses with more than 100 papers in the related research fields.

Research Area

The research focuses of Dr. Du are on 1) the development of vaccines and therapeutic antibodies for the prevention and treatment of emerging infectious diseases caused by influenza viruses, coronaviruses, including Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), as well as blood transfusion-associated virus, including Zika virus (ZIKV); and 2) the study of pathogenic mechanisms of these viruses, based on which to design novel vaccines and therapeutic antibodies.