Credit: Jason Drees, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University
ASU Biodesign Institute researcher Qiang "Shawn" Chen may have come up with a better vaccine candidate based on a key Zika protein. Chen is a viral expert who has worked for the past decade on plant-based therapeutics and vaccines against West Nile virus and Dengue fever, which come from the same Zika family, called flaviviruses.