The Virology Core is committed to developing new vaccine candidates and new vaccine vector systems for antigen delivery against human pathogens. The Virology Core also applies and develops new molecular biology technology to evaluate vaccine candidates to facilitate vaccine development.

Virology Core, 2022: Front Row (left to right) Kwanyee Leung, Staff Scientist, Wei Shi, Staff Scientist, Eun Sung, Yang, Biologist, Man Chen, Staff Scientist, Yi Zhang, Biologist, John Mascola, former Chief of Virology Laboratory, Andrea Biju, IRTA Postbac, Misook Choe, Biologist, Danealle, K, Parchment, INRO Postbac, Cuiping Liu, Senior Scientist, Wing-Pui, Kong, Chief of Virology Core, Cheng Cheng, Head of vaccine research Back Row (left to right): , Lingshu Wang, Staff Scientist, Xuejun Chen, Staff Scientist, Hongying Duan, Staff Scientist, Jonah, S, Merriam, IRTA Postbac, Sabrina Helmold Hait, Research Fellow, Chloe Adrienna G. Talana, IRTA Postbac, Sarah, E, Lovelace, IRTA Postbac, Hannah R. Shrade, IRTA Postbac, Cody Stein, IRTA Postbac, Sam Charaf, IRTA Postbac, Amarendra Pegu, Head of Antibody research
Wing-Pui Kong, Ph.D. (He/Him/His)
Chief, Virology Core
Education: Ph.D., 1993, The University of Chicago, IL

Andrea Biju, B.S. (She/Her/Hers)
Postbaccalaureate Fellow
Education:
B.S., University of California, San Diego
Languages Spoken: Malayalam
Sam Charaf, B.S. (He/Him/His)
IRTA Postbaccalaureate Fellow
Education:
B.S., Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Man Chen, M.D. (She/Her/Hers)
Staff Scientist
Languages Spoken: Mandarin
Xuejun Chen, Ph.D. (He/Him/His)
Lab Manager, Staff Scientist
Education:
Ph.D., Rutgers University
M.S., John Hopkins University
B.S., Peking University
Languages Spoken: Mandarin
Cheng Cheng, Ph.D. (He/Him/His)
Staff Scientist
Education:
Ph.D., Nagoya University
Languages Spoken: Chinese, Japanese
Misook Choe, M.S. (She/Her/Hers)
Biologist
Education:
M.S., Gyeongsang National University
B.S., Gyeongsang National University
Languages Spoken: Korean
Arik Cooper, Ph.D. (He/Him/His)
Senior Scientist
Education:
Ph.D., Weizmann Institute of Science
B.S., Tel Aviv University
Hongying Duan (Holdsworth), M.D., Ph.D. (She/Her/Hers)
Staff Scientist
Education:
M.D., Shandong University, China
Ph.D., Saitama Medical University, Japan
Languages Spoken: Mandarin

Sabrina Helmold Hait, Ph.D. (She/Her/Hers)
Research Fellow
Education:
Ph.D., Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
B.S., Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Languages Spoken: Portuguese, Spanish
Kwanyee Leung, Ph.D. (He/Him/His)
Staff Scientist
Education:
Ph.D., Michigan State University
B.S., Rutgers University
Languages Spoken: Cantonese
Cuiping Liu, Ph.D. (She/Her/Hers)
Senior Scientist
Education:
Ph.D., Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Languages Spoken: Mandarin
Sarah E. Lovelace, B.S. (She/Her/Hers)
Postbaccalaureate Fellow
Education:
B.S., Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
Jonah S. Merriam, B.S. (He/Him/His)
Postbaccalaureate Fellow
Education:
B.S., California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo
Danealle K. Parchment, B.S. (She/Her/Hers)
INRO Postbaccalaureate Fellow
Education:
B.S., Washington University, St. Louis
Amarendra Pegu, Ph.D. (He/Him/His)
Head, Antibody Research
Education:
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Languages Spoken: Hindi
Wei Shi, M.D., Ph.D. (He/Him/His)
Biologist
Education:
Ph.D., Uppsala University, Sweden
M.D., TongJi Medical College of HUST, Wuhan, China
Languages Spoken: Mandarin
Hannah R. Shrader, B.S., B.A. (She/Her/Hers)
IRTA Postbaccalaureate Fellow
Education:
B.A., B.S., University of Iowa
Chloe Adrienna G. Talana, B.S. (She/Her/Hers)
IRTA Postbaccalaureate Fellow
Education:
B.S., Chaminade University of Honolulu
Languages Spoken: Ilocano, Tagalog
Lingshu Wang, Ph.D. (She/Her/Hers)
Staff Scientist
Education:
Ph.D., Shanghai JiaoTong University, China
Languages Spoken: Mandarin
Eun Sung Yang, M.A. (She/Her/Hers)
Biologist
Education:
M.A., Seoul National University
B.A., Seoul National University
Languages Spoken: Korean
Yi Zhang, B.S. (She/Her/Hers)
Biologist
Languages Spoken: Mandarin
Former Research Group Members
Jeffrey Boyington, Ph.D. — Retired
Keyun Wang, B.S.— Des Moines University
Yen-Ting Lai, Ph.D.— Moderna
Sung-Youl Ko, Ph.D. — iLAB, Co., Ltd.
Gordon Joyce, Ph.D.— Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Rebecca Rudicell, Ph.D.— Sanofi
Kevin Saunders, Ph.D.— Duke University
Daniel Lingwood, Ph.D.— Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hadi Yassine, Ph.D.— Qatar University
Guillaume Stewart-Jones, Ph.D.— Moderna
Mangaiarkarasi Asokan, Ph.D.— Christian Medical College Vellore
Tiffany Chan, M.S.— GSK
Kurt Hill, B.S.— Thomas Jefferson Medical School
Michelle Cully, B.S.— University of Pennsylvania
Edward Sarfo, B.S.— Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Megan DeMouth, B.S.— Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Angela Corrigan, B.S.— University of Pennsylvania
Samhita Sengupta, B.S.— Georgetown University
Cassandra Almasri, B.S.— Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Harlan Pietz, B.S.— The Rockefeller University
Angela Wu, B.S.— University of Maryland
Alexander Jafari, B.S. — Tulane University School of Medicine
Anna Maximova, B.S.— University of Maryland
Zacchary Mankoff, B.S.— Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Timothy Wanninger, B.S.— University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Rita Chen, B.S.— Washington University
Adam Bossert, B.S.— Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Paul Thomas, B.S.— University of California, San Francisco