Recent Awards & Honors
2011
2010
- Dr. Lijuan Yuan was selected as Scholar of the Week by the Office of the Vice President for Research at
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University recognizing her research to develop rotavirus and
norovirus vaccines.
- Tammy Bui won a Graduate Student Travel Award to present her research on study of infection and
illness of eight norovirus GII.4 variants in a gnotobiotic pig challenge model at the 29th American Society
for Virology Annual Meeting on July 17-21, 2010 at Montana State University in Bozeman, MT.
- Ke Wen won a Graduate Student Travel Award to present his research on Toll-like receptor 2, 3 and 9
expression and IFN-γ production by gd T cell subsets in gnotobiotic pigs infected with virulent
human rotavirus at the 29th American Society for Virology Annual Meeting on July 17-21, 2010 at Montana
State University in Bozeman, MT.
- Ke Wen won a Veterinary Virology Club Travel Award for his research on gd T cell subsets at the 29th
American Society for Virology Annual Meeting on July 17-21, 2010 at Montana State University in Bozeman,
MT.
- Dorothy 'Nezzie' Jones (previously worked as a volunteer in the Yuan lab for 6 months) applied successfully
for the Summer Veterinary Student Research Program (SVSRP) which is sponsored by both the National Institutes
of Health and the Merial Veterinary Scholars Program.
2009
- Dr. Lijuan Yuan won the “American Society for Microbiology International Professorship Award for Asia.”
- Dr. Lijuan Yuan was awarded an Honorary Professorship by Yunnan Agricultural University in China.
