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Guan Yi | |||||||||
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Born | 1962 (age 61–62) Ningdu County, Jiangxi, China | ||||||||
Nationality | Hong Konger | ||||||||
Alma mater | Medical College of Nanchang University Peking Union Medical College University of Hong Kong | ||||||||
Scientific career | |||||||||
Fields | Virology | ||||||||
Institutions | University of Hong Kong | ||||||||
Doctoral advisor | Kennedy Francis Shortridge | ||||||||
Other academic advisors | Robert Webster | ||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 管轶 | ||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 管軼 | ||||||||
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Guan Yi (simplified Chinese: 管轶; traditional Chinese: 管軼; born 1962) is a Chinese virologist. In 2014, he was ranked as 11th in the world by Thomson Reuters (now known as Clarivate Analytics)[1] among global researchers in the field of microbiology. He obtained his PhD in microbiology at the University of Hong Kong and is now a professor of microbiology at his alma mater. His research on the viral respiratory disease SARS helped the Chinese government avert the 2004 outbreak of this disease.[2] He is the current director (China affairs)[3] of the State Key Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases University of Hong Kong.[4] In early 2017, Guan warned that the H7N9 influenza virus "poses the greatest threat to humanity than any other in the past 100 years".[5]