Rui Kong, PhD
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Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine
Investigator, Emory National Primate Research Center
Assistant Professor, Vaccine Center, Emory National Primate Research Center
Distinguished Investigator, Georgia Research Alliance
Graduate Programs
- Full Member - Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis
- Full Member - Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Education
Postdoctoral, Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH, 2016Postdoctoral, University of Pennsylvania, 2012
PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2011
BS, Tsinghua University, 2006
Contact Information
Email: rui.kong@emory.edu
Phone: 404-727-3559
Address:
Emory National Primate Research Center, Room 2012
954 Gatewood Road NE,
Atlanta, GA 30329
Research in our lab focuses on antibodies and vaccines against HIV-1 and other pathogens. We
are interested in two questions: 1) how to consistently induce specific highly functional
antibodies by vaccination, and 2) how to maintain the antibody responses above the level of
protection for a long period of time. Specific areas of interest include 1) novel vaccine design
strategies to induce broadly-reactive anti-HIV-1 neutralizing antibodies; 2) HIV-1 Envelope
fusion peptide-directed antibodies elicited in infected and immunized subjects; and 3)
mechanisms of antibody elicitation, maturation and duration in immunized individuals.
are interested in two questions: 1) how to consistently induce specific highly functional
antibodies by vaccination, and 2) how to maintain the antibody responses above the level of
protection for a long period of time. Specific areas of interest include 1) novel vaccine design
strategies to induce broadly-reactive anti-HIV-1 neutralizing antibodies; 2) HIV-1 Envelope
fusion peptide-directed antibodies elicited in infected and immunized subjects; and 3)
mechanisms of antibody elicitation, maturation and duration in immunized individuals.
