Dr Shiu-Wan Chan PhD

I am a lecturer of the Faculty of Life Sciences affiliated with the Microbiology research group. I graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a first class honoured degree in Zoology. I came to the United Kingdom with the award of the prestigious Croucher Foundation Scholarship (Hong Kong) by a selection committee chaired by the Nobel Laureate, Lord Todd. I declined a place in Cambridge in favour of Edinburgh.  After obtaining my Ph.D in Molecular Biology, I started my post-doct. also in Edinburgh on pioneering hepatitis C virus (HCV) research and have made major breakthrough in the discovery of a new genotype of the virus and its association with false negative blood donations and in the establishment of the current phylogenetic classification of the virus. I am a named inventor on international patents that have already led to the global marketing of an HCV testing kit by Abbott. I then moved to Cambridge and worked in both the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre and the University of Cambridge, as a post-doct. and grant holder. In the fall of 1999 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Molecular Virology at the Dept. of Biomolecular Sciences, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), jointly with the Manchester Royal Infirmary. The following summer I was awarded the prestigious MRC Career Establishment Grant.  In 2004 I became a lecturer of The University of Manchester.  I am currently an Associate Chief Editor of the Frontiers in Virology and members of the Editorial Boards of ‘The Open Virology Journal’ and 'World Journal of Virology'.