Guangming Zhong is a

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who is currently Dielmann Endowed Chair of Genetic and Environmental Risk at

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. His lab works on microbial interactions and the development of vaccines for chlamydial infection. He holds an MD in preventive medicine and MS in microbiology from Xiangya Medical School,

Central South University Central South University (CSU; ) is a national public university in Changsha, Hunan, China. The university is sponsored by the China Ministry of Education. It is a Chinese state Double First Class University. Hunan Medical University, Changsha ...

, China, and completed his PhD in microbiology at the

University of Manitoba The University of Manitoba (U of M, UManitoba, or UM) is a Canadian public research university in the province of Manitoba.Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tota ...

. He has an

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of 55 according to

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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Central South University alumni University of Manitoba alumni University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio faculty {{Biologist-stub