Weiping Zhang is a Full Professor in the Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology department at Kansas State University. His research mainly focuses on enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) pathogenesis in diarrheal disease and vaccine development against ETEC associated diarrhea. His laboratory has applied the toxoid and toxoid fusion strategies and demonstrated for the first time that non-toxic STa molecules induced neutralizing anti-STa antibodies, and invented the MEFA technology to develop structure-based vaccines against heterogeneous ETEC adhesins. Weiping Zhang is a Full Professor in the Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology department at Kansas State University. His research mainly focuses on enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) pathogenesis in diarrheal disease and vaccine development against ETEC associated diarrhea. His laboratory has applied the toxoid and toxoid fusion strategies and demonstrated for the first time that non-toxic STa molecules induced neutralizing anti-STa antibodies, and invented the MEFA technology to develop structure-based vaccines against heterogeneous ETEC adhesins.

virology, vaccination and veterinary sciences