Danna Zhou is a researcher and Deputy Director of the Veterinary Research Office at the Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences. She obtained a doctorate in Preventive Veterinary Medicine from the School of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, in July 2009. She worked as an Associate Researcher at the Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences, from 2009 to 2022, and has been a researcher since 2022. She is a member of the Wuhan Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Association and the Hubei Provincial Major Animal Epidemic Risk Assessment Expert Committee. She is currently primarily engaged in research on new vaccines and rapid diagnostic reagents for animal infectious diseases, including epidemiological surveys and pathogen variation analysis of major pathogens in large-scale pig farms, research on the differences between the virulence and immune protection of epidemic strains and vaccine strains, and studies on the interaction mechanisms and immune responses of major viral disease pathogens, such as Japanese encephalitis and viral diarrhea, and their hosts.