Shi Zhengli (simplified Chinese: 石正丽; traditional Chinese: 石正麗; born 26 May 1964) is a Chinese virologist who researches SARS-like coronaviruses of bat origin. Shi directs the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).

1 day ago · Shi Zhengli has worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which sparked controversy over an alleged lab leak of Covid in 2020. She was also the first to customize a coronavirus receptor that could help in developing new drugs. These receptors, which are modular chimeric proteins, can help in research about infectious diseases. ...

1 day ago · Shi Zhengli, who led the research on HKU5-CoV-2 coronavirus, is referred to as batwoman because of her contributions to the studies on bat coronavirus. She has worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which sparked controversy over alleged lab leak of Covid-19 in 2020.

2 days ago · Shi Zhengli, the Chinese scientist infamous for research that’s suspected to have caused the Covid-19 pandemic, has led a study that has found a new coronavirus that works similar to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19 disease. There are several hundreds of coronaviruses across multiple categories. Of them, only a handful, including ...

2 days ago · The study was led by Shi Zhengli – a leading virologist known as the “batwoman” due to her extensive research on bat coronaviruses – at the Guangzhou Laboratory along with researchers from ...

Feb 9, 2022 · One of its labs, led by virologist Shi Zhengli, focuses on coronaviruses that live in bats, and has spent years sequencing viral genomes, isolating live viruses, and—through genetic mixing and...

1 day ago · The research on the new coronavirus was led by China's leading virologist Shi Zhengli along with a team of scientists from the Guangzhou Academy of Sciences, Wuhan University and the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Shi is popularly known as the "batwoman" due to her extensive knowledge and research into bat coronaviruses. She is also known for for ...

Jun 1, 2020 · Wuhan-based virologist Shi Zhengli has identified dozens of deadly SARS-like viruses in bat caves, and she warns there are more out there

Prof. Shi is a senior scientist at the Guangzhou Laboratory, China. She was the director of the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. She got her Ph.D training at Montpellier University II, France, from 1996 to 2000.

Jun 14, 2021 · Shi Zhengli, a top Chinese virologist, is once again at the center of clashing narratives about her research on coronaviruses at a state lab in Wuhan, the city where the pandemic first...