Dr. Wen-Quan Zou is currently working as an associate professor at departments of pathology and neurology and as associate director at national prion disease pathology surveillance center, case western reserve university school of medicine. He completed his PhD. from shanghai medical university. He received many honors and awards in his career. He published many articles in international journals.
Dr. Wen-Quan Zou research is mainly focused in the areas of protein aggregation in the conformational diseases especially on the physiological and pathologic prion proteins (prpc and prpsc) in prion diseases (prd) as well as on neurotoxic amyloid β (aβ) in alzheimer disease (ad), the co-existence of prpc and prpsc in the central nervous system is a prerequisite for prd, a group of fatal transmissible neurodegenerative diseases such as creutzfeldt-jakob disease (cjd) in humans, scrapie in sheep and goat, bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle, and chronic wasting disease in deer and elk.
