Primary Faculty and Staff

Dr. Jishu Shi, DVM, PhD

Professor of Vaccine Immunology | Director, Center on Biologics Development and Evaluation

• Dr. Wayne & Hilda Appleton Endowed Professor Vanier & Krause Fellow, Biosecurity Research Institute | Director, U.S.-China Center for Animal Health

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Dr. Lihua Wang, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Dr. Sergei Raev, PhD

Project Leader

• Research Assistant Professor

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Dr. Yufang Ding, PhD

Project Leader

• Research Assistant Professor

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Dr. Rachel Madera, PhD

Research Manager

Yuzhen Li, M.S.

Research Associate

Nina Muro

Program Coordinator

Aidan Craig

Research Assistant

Liesel Ritter

Laboratory Technician

Limeng Cai

Graduate Student

Our Research Programs

The Laboratory of Vaccine Immunology develops vaccine adjuvants, novel diagnostic assays and vaccines for swine infectious diseases. Specifically, we focus our research on African swine fever (ASF), Streptococcus suis, swine influenza virus (SIV), classical swine fever (CSF), porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS), and other emerging infectious diseases of swine.

Having worked on research and development projects of veterinary biologics and human biopharmaceuticals at Pfizer for 5 years, Dr. Shi is particularly interested in research initiatives that may reduce the burden of infectious diseases in food animal production. In addition to research projects supported by USDA and DHS, we are working closely with animal health industry partners in the following areas:

1. safety and efficacy testing of experimental vaccines for ASF, CSF, and PRRS;

2. co-development of novel adjuvants for animal vaccines;

3. evaluation of diagnostic tools for swine infectious diseases;

4. evaluation of novel antiviral compounds against swine viral pathogens;

5. evaluation of novel disinfectants against ASFV and other swine viral pathogens.