Xing-Quan Zhu is Professor and Head, Department of Parasitology, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He is a parasitologist with interests in controlling parasitic diseases of poverty. His research focuses on genetics, genomics (including mitochondrial genomics), transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics and microRNAs of parasites; molecular vaccine development; molecular systematics, molecular detection and diagnosis of parasites; epidemiology and control strategies for parasitic infections.
