Wu Changyou

Biography

In 1993, he received his Ph.D in Biological Science of Medicine from the Department of Medicine in the University of Montreal, Canada. From 1993 to 1996, he worked as a Research Associate (postdoctoral fellow) at the Department of Inflammation and Autoimmune Diseases in Hoffman-La Roche Inc., inNutley,New Jersey,USA. From 1997 and 2001, he worked as a Visiting Associate and Research Fellow in the Laboratory of Clinical Investigation,InstituteofAllergyand Infectious Disease (NIAID),NIH,USA. From 2001 to 2003, he worked as a Staff Scientist at the Cellular Immunology Section,VaccineResearchCenter,NIH,USA. In 2003 to present, he is a professor and director in the Department of Immunology, Zhongshan School of Medicine,Sun Yat-sen University,China.He currently has more than 250 publications in Chinese and English.

Research Interest

He was interested in the study of the differentiation and function of mouse and human CD4+ T cells, and different subsets and function of memory T cells in the infectious diseases. He studies on the expression and regulation of IL-12 receptor, establishes the IL-12 receptor gene knockout mouse model, confirms the biological function of IL-12 receptors, reveals the diversity of Th1 cells and the mechanism of memory T cell formation in vivo.