Dr. Wen-Zhe Ho is a Tenure Professor at the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine and Director of Center for Animal Experiment/ABSL III Lab, Professor of Key Laboratory of Virology , Wuhan University School of Medicine. Dr. Ho received his medical, research and public health training at the Wuhan University School of Medicine in China and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Since 1993 he served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine until joining the Temple University School of Medicine in September, 2009. Dr. Ho also serves as Editor in Chief of Virology: Research and Treatement, a member of editorial board of J. NeuroVirology, J. NeuroImmune Pharmacology, and Chinese J. Pediatrics (International Edition). Dr. Ho’s research work has produced over 110 peer-reviewed articles and 18 editorials, reviews and chapters. Some of his publications appear in the highly regarded journals including PNAS, Blood, Hepatology, J. Virology, J. Immunology, J. Infect Dis., and American J. Pathol.

Dr Ho is a viral immunologist with a research interest in how the body protects itself against viral infections, particularly human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and HIV and/or HCV diseases. The work in the Ho laboratory is focused on virus-host interactions that govern innate immune response and viral replication within a target cell. One question that is interesting to the Ho laboratory is how HIV /HCV escape from host defense mechanisms, resulting in persistent infection.