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2 unusual facts about Jian Zhou


Jian Zhou

Jian Zhou (1957–1999) (in Chinese convention Dr. Zhou Jian) was a Chinese virologist and cancer researcher, who with Australia’s Ian Frazer invented Gardasil and Cervarix, the vaccines for stimulating human immunological resistance to the cervical cancer-inducing human papilloma virus .

“We owe him (Dr. Jian Zhou) a great deal because not only was he involved in developing the papilloma virus vaccine, but he also has mentored a whole generation of Chinese scientists in Australia, who are now going out there and doing equally interesting science.” – Ian Frazer, M.B.B.S. University of Edinburgh, British-Australian virologist and co-inventor of Gardasil, also, at belated 1 P.M.



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