Virology and Microbiology

Rongtuan Lin has completed his PhD from Concordia University and Post-doctoral training at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, McGill University and a Senior Investigator at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research. He has authored more than 130 publications and has served on several grant review panels. His research focus on the molecular understanding of the positive and negative regulation of antiviral immunity and to manipulate the innate immune response as a therapeutic strategy to control virus infection and cancer. His current interests include the use of small molecules that mimic viral RNA to inhibit Pathogenic virus infection.

antiviral immunity Infections

Bin Lu, PhD is currently Principle Scientist at Medimmune/AstraZeneca. He has 18 years of preclinical and clinical experience in the development of vaccines, monoclonal antibodies for infectious diseases. His experience includes Sr. Direction and VP of R&D in a biotech startup and Co-PI for the CRADA programs with NIH on the evaluation of novel vaccines and antivirals. Dr. Lu has authored over twenty peer-reviewed publications and is an inventor on several US patents related to development and production of vaccines for influenza and other serious viral respiratory diseases.

infectious diseases vaccines and antivirals

since 07/2015 Full Professorship for “High Throughput Sequencing Analysis” at Friedrich Schiller University Jena since 01/2015 Group leader at Leibniz Institute for Age Research – Fritz Lipmann Institute since 04/2015 Founding and board member of FIFI (F¨ordervereinverein des Instituts f¨ur Informatik) since 07/2013 Board member of ZAJ (Aging Research Center Jena) 04/2015 Founding member of MSCJ (Michael Stifel Zentrum Jena for Data-Driven and Simulation Science) 07/2013 Founding member of ZAJ (Aging Research Center Jena) 02/2012–06/2015 Junior-Professorship for “High Throughput Sequencing Analysis” at Friedrich Schiller University Jena 01/2010–01/2012 Group Leader of “RNA Bioinformatics” at Philipps-University Marburg

Research in viruses Microbiology