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Bo Wang, PhD

Senior Research Associate, Molecular Virology
  • Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology
Bo Wang
Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology
VA-MD College of Veterinary Medicine
Virginia Tech
205 Duck Pond Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24061

PhD, Molecular Virology, 2019
Department of Applied Biochemistry
Technical University of Berlin
Berlin, Germany

MS, Microbiology, 2015
Wuhan Institute of Virology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wuhan, China

BS, Biotechnology, 2012
College of Life Sciences
Central China Normal University
Wuhan, China

BA, German Philology
College of Foreign Languages
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Wuhan, China

2022-present
Senior Research Associate

Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology
Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA

2019-2022
Postdoctoral Associate

Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology
Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA

2015-2019
Research Assistant

Division of Viral Gastroenteritis and Hepatitis Pathogens and Enteroviruses
Department of Infectious Diseases
Robert Koch Institute
Berlin, Germany

2011
Research Intern

BGI Group
Shenzhen, China

  • Molecular mechanisms of virus-host interactions
  • Molecular epidemiology of emerging and re-emerging zoonotic viruses
  • Zoonotic transmission, evolution, and pathogenesis of hepatitis E virus
  • Development of animal models to elucidate hepatitis E virus-associated diseases
  • American Society for Virology
  • American Society for Microbiology
  • German Society for Virology (Gesellschaft für Virologie)
  • German Research Platform for Zoonoses