After winning accolades in the US for his outstanding research, Xie’s work will continue to focus on effective mRNA-based vaccines.

Award-winning Xie Zhenfei, a Harvard University rising star in cutting-edge research aimed at an HIV vaccine, has left the US and joined China’s leading biosafety laboratory in Wuhan. Xie made headlines in May last year as first author of a landmark paper published by the journal Science that showed a way to use mRNA technology – used to develop vaccines during the Covid-19 pandemic – to develop an effective vaccine against HIV/Aids. The method addresses the main challenge to a vaccine – the…

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