Zhu Hongmei

Researcher

Personal resume

Female, deputy chief physician and associate professor of Department of Dermatology, Changzheng Hospital,Second Military Medical University, MD. Graduated from the Second Military Medical University and received a bachelor's degree in medicinein 1994. Studied microbial taxonomyin the Department of Microbiology, Fudan University,between 1998 and 1999. Receivedmedical doctoral degree in DermatologyDisease in Second Military Medical University in 2003. She has long been engaged in basic and clinical research of fungal disease, won the second prize and third prize ofMilitary Science and Technology Progress andHospital New Technology and New Therapy Award. Gained 2 projects of National Natural Science Fund and published more than 20 papers. She has  been committed to the pathogenicity of fungal research, especially in the virulence of cryptococcus neoformans virulence factors, cloning STE12α gene and the construction of expression vector, determining the expression of MMP9 in the brain tissue of mouse model, and elucidated the relationship between this enzyme and the pathogenesis of cryptococcus neoformans, and the signal transduction pathways involved in the virulence factors of cryptococcus neoformans.