Jie Zhang, Ph.D. (born in 1971) is a professor at the Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute (LVRI), China. She leads the FMD Diagnosis Research Group and the FMD Prevent and Control Innovation Team. Jie received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Clinical Medicine and her PhD in Microbiology from the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Her recent research activities include the development of rapid diagnostic methods, subunit vaccine and virus-like particle vaccine. Currently, her work on research themes such as the development of virus-like particle vaccine against FMD SAT2 virus and generating PRRSV as live but replication-incompetent virus vaccine is under experiment.