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Journal of Bone Research

Journal of Bone Research
Open Access

ISSN: 2572-4916

+44 1478 350008

Guey Chuen Perng

Guey Chuen Perng

Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, National Cheng Kung University Medical College,Taiwan

Biography
Dr. Guey Chuen Perng, nick name Oscar, earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at University of California, Davis, and got his postdoc training in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (CSMC), an affiliated teaching hospital to University of California, Los Angeles. Oscar was an assistant professor at the Department of Ophthalmology at UC Irvine and served as Director of Arbovirology division at AFRIMS, an affiliated research institute to US Military in Bangkok, Thailand. In 2007, Oscar was recruited to the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine as an Associate Professor at Emory University.
Research Interest

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.

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