Dr. Chiung Yu Hung

Prof. Chung-Yu Hung is an Associate Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She obtained her B.S. in Biology from National Taiwan Normal University and her Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin. She then joined the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Medical College of Ohio in 1997. She relocated to the University of Texas at San Antonio and was promoted to Associate Professor of Research in 2006. Her research interests include fungal immunology, fungal pathogenesis, medical mycology and vaccine development, with a focus on the studies of host-pathogen interaction and the development of a vaccine against coccidioidomycosis, a human respiratory fungal infection also called Valley fever. Prof. Hung has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in the medical mycology field. She is also a coinventor of two US-patented vaccines against Coccidioides infection.