Bing Sun
Chinese Academy of Sciences
China
Biography
Bing Sun joined Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China and was a Chief of Lab of Molecular Immunology. He has been appointed as Co-Director and Head, Lab of Molecular Virology in Institute Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. He has been working on dendritic cell maturation and Th1/Th2 cell differentiation over twenty years. He has been working on viral ion channel protein; he has discovered 3a protein of SARS and P7 protein of HCV are an ion channel protein, which are important for viral life cycle and potential a drug target. He has been working on RNA polymerase in influenza A virus.