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Research Interest

My laboratory is doing research on hepatitis viruses, influenza viruses as well as newly emerged viruses, like the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), which emerged in 2002, and SARS-CoV-2, which emerged in 2019 to cause the COVID-19 pandemic. We are also involved in research on Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and Hepatitis C virus (HCV), the two major players which cause chronic liver diseases worldwide.

To study viruses causing severe acute and chronic infections

To understand the role of individual viral proteins and their abilities to interact with host factors

To use monoclonal antibodies to characterize functional motifs in viral proteins

To develop methods for the production of proteins and design of immunogenic protein fragments

To identify novel viral-host interactions in hepatitis B virus and use small inhibitors to disrupt them