Dr. Ying Wu is an associate professor at the Institute of Medical Virology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University. Wuhan, China. She also works as a principal investigator in the State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan University. She has graduated from the College of life sciences, Wuhan Univ. on 2004 and got her PhD on 2009 from the same university. She is the principal secretary of the Chinese Society for Virology. Her current research interests include studying the mechanism of the interaction of viral pathogens and hosts in addition to developing therapeutic antibodies against viruses and providing new epitopes for vaccine design.