Dr. Mingtao Zeng
Dr. Mingtao Zeng
The Center of Excellence for Infectious Diseases, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA.
Biography
Dr. Zeng's main research interests are vaccine immunology and therapeutic drug development, which broadly include microbial infection, host defense and immunity, development of new mucosal vaccines and therapeutics for infectious diseases such as anthrax, botulism, influenza, tularemia, COVID-19, and pneumococcal diseases.
Research Interest
New-generation vaccines against human respiratory pathogens such as influenza viruses, Streptococcus pneumoniae, nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi), and agents important for biodefense such as Bacillus anthracis, botulinum neurotoxins, and Francisella tularensis