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Guey Chuen Perng
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, National Cheng Kung University Medical College,Taiwan
Dr. Perng's research interests are to use up-to-date technology to understand the diseases induced by infectious agents. While thinking about pathogenesis of an infection, we often direct ourselves to immune cells, which perhaps could be critical in understanding of a disease development. But, these cells are originated from hematopoietic organ—bone marrow, of which what role they play in pathogenic cause of a disease remains a mystery. The research focus therefore is to dissect the effects of virus-host interactions on up and down regulation ofhematopoietic progenitor cells in bone marrow and innate immune response and/or cytokine productions in pathogen infected subjects, as this could directly affect viral load in the infected organs and therefore is an important factors in the pathogenesis of virus infections.