Weiyong Liu, PhD, is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Department of Laboratory Medicine at Tongji Hospital, affiliated with Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Dr. Liu’s research interests focus on molecular epidemiology, diagnostic methodology, and pathogenic molecular mechanisms of infectious diseases. He has published over 80 articles in the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Infection, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Emerging Microbes & Infections, Journal of Virology, Viruses, and others, and has been awarded eight invention patents related to pathogen detection.