Yujuan Yue

Yujuan Yue is a virology specialist in the Center of Comparative Medicine at UC, Davis. She received her MD in 1986 from the medical school of Qingdao University, China and Ph.D in 2004 from the deparment of comparative pathology at UC, Davis. She has been working on a model of rhesus cytomegalovirus (RhCMV) to investigate HCMV pathogenesis, preventive and therapeutic strategies since her graduate study. Working together with Dr. Peter Barry and members in his laboratory, they have demonstrated RhCMV infection of rhesus macaques recapitulates HCMV infection of humans and represents a relevant nonhuman primate model for HCMV .