Pele Chong
Pele Chong
Distinguished Investigator and Director, Vaccine Research and Development Center, Vaccine Research and Development Center, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan
Biography
Dr. Chong is Distinguished Investigator and Director, Vaccine Research and Development Center at National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan. Dr. Chong had spent 15 years at Aventis Pasteur in human vaccine research and development. During his tenure there, Dr. Chong had developed two human vaccines, ProHibit against H. influenzae type b and the component pertussis vaccine, and also took a synthetic peptide-based HIV vaccine to phase I clinical trials in 1994. In June 2000, Dr. Chong joined United Biomedical, Inc. (UBI) as the Vice President and assisted to develop a peptide-based Foot-Mouth Disease vaccine.