Professor Gary Wong heads the Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers Research Unit at the Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include the establishment of rapid, sensitive and specific methods for on-site diagnostics, the development of animal models, vaccines and therapeutics, as well as research into mechanisms of pathogenicity for Biosafety Level (BSL)-3 or -4 viruses causing viral hemorrhagic fevers in humans, with a focus on bunyaviruses (i.e., Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever virus, Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome virus, Hantavirus), as well as Nipah virus and filoviruses (i.e., Ebola, Marburg). He is also interested in novel pathogen discovery and characterization, especially those of zoonotic origin.