Rui Kong, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. A Georgia Research Alliance Distinguished Investigator, Dr. Kong is a faculty member of the Emory Vaccine Center and an investigator at the Emory National Primate Research Center. He is a member of the Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University. He also belongs to the Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis Graduate Program and the Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Graduate Program in Emory's Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences.
Titles & Roles
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Research
Research in Dr. Kong's lab focuses on antibodies and vaccines against HIV-1 and other pathogens. The team studies how to consistently induce highly functional antibodies through vaccination and how to maintain the antibody responses above the level of protection for long periods. Their work includes developing novel vaccine design strategies to induce broadly-reactive anti-HIV-1 neutralizing antibodies, characterizing HIV-1 envelope fusion peptide-directed antibodies elicited in infected and immunized subjects, and defining mechanisms of antibody elicitation, maturation and duration in immunized individuals.
