The overall mission of our division is to fully characterize the swine diseases of the gastrointes?tinal tract (GI) caused by Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDV), Transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV), Porcine rotavirus (PoRV), Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2), Porcine Parvovirus (PPV) and so on, and to develop effective measures and products to control these diseases. The research interests focus on: 1). etiology, epidemiology, pathogenesis, the protective immune responses of the swine infectious GI pathogens; 2). the design and development of diagnostic technology, vaccines, antiviral antibodies and cytokines to control the diseases.

Li Feng, Ph.D., Professor        E-mail: fengli@caas.cn

Professional major: Prof. Feng’s main research fields include: Diagnosis, prevention and control techniques of swine viral diarrhea diseases, Development of vaccines against swine viral diarrhea pathogens, Molecular epidemiology of swine viral diarrhea pathogens, Reverse genetics of porcine coronavirus and kobuvirus, Molecular pathogenesis of viral diarrhea pathogens and Viral diarrhea pathogens-host cell interactions. Research work is mainly focusing on porcine transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV), porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), porcine rotavirus (PoRV), porcine kobuvirus (PKV) and porcine enterovirus (PEV).