Prof. Tian Wang

Tian Wang is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, USA. She received her PhD degree in Immunology at the University of Texas Medical Branch in 2000. She then completed postdoctoral training in the area of vector-borne infectious pathogens at Yale University in 2004. She was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology at Colorado State University during 2005–2008. She joined the University of Texas Medical Branch as an Assistant Professor in 2008 and was promoted to Professor in 2015. Since 2007, she has served for NIH study sections in the areas of Immune Mechanisms of Virus infection and Biodefense research. Her research focuses on understanding the disease mechanisms of emerging and re-emerging RNA viruses, such as West Nile virus, Zika virus, Powassan virus, Chikungunya virus, and SARS-CoV-2, host immune responses to viruses and candidate vaccines, vaccine development, and antiviral agents.