Yongqun He

Dr. Yongqun He is a Professor at the University of Michigan Medical School with primary affiliation in the Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine (ULAM) and joint appointments in the Department of Learning Health Sciences and Department of Microbiology and Immunology. He holds affiliations with the Rogel Cancer Center, MIDAS, and other institutions. He earned his D.V.M. from Jiangxi Agricultural University (China) and Ph.D. in Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences from Virginia Tech (USA). His research focuses on computational medicine, ontology development, vaccinology, and microbiology. He pioneered Vaccine Informatics, developed tools like VO, Ontobee, and Ontofox, and contributed to Kidney Precision Medicine through ontologies like KTAO. He has mentored numerous students and serves on NIH review panels, international conferences, and advisory boards. His work includes over 300 publications, with recent topics on ontology-based vaccine design, AI applications, and kidney disease modeling.

• Education: D.V.M. (1991), M.S. Veterinary Medicine (1996), Ph.D. Biomedical Sciences (2000) from China Agricultural University and Virginia Tech.
• Research: Integrates AI, ontology, and bioinformatics to study vaccines, pathogens, and kidney diseases.
• Services: NIH grant reviewer, organizer of international ontology workshops (VDOS, CELLS), and editorial board member for journals like Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology.