Prof. Yuefeng Chu

Yuefeng Chu, Ph.D., is a researcher, professor, and doctoral supervisor at Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Lanzhou University. Yuefeng Chu is the principal scientist of bacterial disease in the grazing animal research team at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the executive deputy director of the Veterinary Etiological Biology Research Center of the Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute. He served as deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology and the Science and Technology Department of the Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute. He received his bachelor's degree in veterinary medicine at Shihezi University (2000), a master's degree in preventive veterinary medicine at Nanjing Agricultural University (2003), and a Ph.D. in preventive veterinary medicine at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He worked as a visiting scientist at Purdue University (2012-2014) and at the International Livestock Research Institute (2017). Currently, he mainly focuses on brucellosis, bovine tuberculosis, and mycoplasma bovis infection to research pathogenic factors discovery and pathogenesis, such as bacterial adhesion, invasion, intracellular survival, regulation of host immunity, and their cross-species transmission mechanisms, as well as to guide the development of new vaccines, diagnostic reagents, and other prevention and control technological products.