Prof. Zhiwei Chen is the founding director of AIDS Institute and a tenured full professor in Microbiology at The University of Hong Kong. He obtained his Ph.D. from New York University in 1996. He then progressed from a post-doc to a research scientist, and to a staff investigator/assistant professor at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center of the Rockefeller University. Since 1991, he has been studying HIV/AIDS. In recent years, he also investigates SARS/COVID-19 vaccine and immunopathogenesis as well as cancer immunotherapy. He has published over 180 peer-reviewed SCI papers with ranking by Clarivate Analytics as the top 1% worldwide by citations and one of the academics among Highly Cited Researchers 2022. He serves the editorial boards of AIDS, JAIDS, JMP and JNIP. (http://www.med.hku.hk/aidsinst)
