Jack Chen
Alaska State Public Health Virology Laboratory
University of Alaska Fairbanks
USA
Biography
Jack Chen Associate Professor and Deputy Director in Alaska State Virology Laboratory in University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska. He completed his Phd in 2000 from Virology, Department of Microbiology, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan. He served Editor-in-Chief in Journal of General and Molecular Virology and editors for Journal of Biology and Life Sciences, Cancer Therapy, Gene Therapy & Molecular Biology. He has specialties in Virus-host cell interaction and Virology diagnosis and reference.
Research Interest
His research interests are • Finding Role of tumor virus in human tumorigenesis. His research focuses on the transcriptional regulation of virus-host cell interactions of Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) and the role of tumor virus in tumorigenesis. • Emerging and zoonotic viral pathogens. Approximately 75% of these pathogens are diseases of animal origin (zoonotic), majorities are viruses. As a public health virology laboratory, we are developing new molecular tools for the diagnosis and reference of viral infection.