Jürgen A. Richt

During Dr. Richt's 25-year scientific career, he has studied pathogen-host interactions in various infectious disease models, including avian and swine influenza viruses, African Swine Fever, Rift Valley Fever, prion diseases, and Borna Disease. On these topics, Dr. Richt has published more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts. He is the editor for Virus Genes and serves on editorial boards for other scientific journals. Currently, Dr. Richt is the director of the Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases and holds the prestigious Regents Distinguished Professor appointment at Kansas State University (Manhattan, Kansas), where he is a Kansas Bioscience Authority Eminent Scholar.