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Director General,
Center for Emerging Virus Research
Lee, Joo-yeon.

Director General, Center for Emerging Virus Research PictureDirector General,
Center for Emerging Virus Research
Lee, Joo-yeon

Profile
  • Education
    • Doctor of Science
  • Career
    • Director, Division of Emerging Disease and Vector Research, KCDC
    • Leader, Promotion team for developing treatments, KCDC headquaters
Major Research Field
  • A study on the development of control technologies such as diagnosis, treatment, and immunity of new, variant, and acute viral infectious diseases such as COVID-19, influenza, and SFTS.
Performance
  • Published, The J2N-k hamster model simulates a severe SARS-CoV-2 infection in patients with cardiovascular diseases. (2022, J Virol Methods.)
  • Published, Persistence of the neutralising antibody response after SARS-CoV-2 infection. (2021, Clin Microbiol Infect.) etc.
  • Patent, Transgenic mouse expressing human DPP4 gene susceptible for South Korean strain Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection and use thereof(2021). etc.
Message
Center for Emerging Virus Research is developing treatments and control technologies for acute and chronic virus infectious diseases such as COVID-19, influenza, and AIDS, and strengthening the foundation for life cycle research through clinical brokerage research.