Xi Chen

Dr. Xi Chen is working as Associate Professor at College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China. He completed his Post-Doctorate from Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China in 2019 and Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China in 2015. In 2013, he won Chinese Government Scholarship for exchanging student and got the training for Ph.D at College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens. During his doctoral study, he worked on the pathogenicity of CNS tuberculosis, and now he focuses on the interaction of host and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the role of mycobacterial secretory proteins, and the immune escape of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. He has so far secured (completed/ongoing) 8 research grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China as Principal investigator / Co-Principal investigator. He is the reviewer of 6 journals. He has several publications in peer reviewed SCI journals, 9 patents and 1 chapter in the book of Biosafety of veterinary medicine, and 1 national standard.