Lin Deng received her Ph.D. from the Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine in 2006. She currently is an Assistant Professor at the Division of Infectious Disease Control, Center for Infectious Diseases, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan. Her research areas mainly focus on the molecular biology of hepatitis C virus (HCV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV). She is particularly interested in understanding how viral proteins of HCV and HBV interact with host factors to establish a persistent infection, leading to liver diseases including steatosis, metabolic disorders, and hepatocellular carcinoma.