Ming Tan, PhD, is an associate professor at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in the USA. He completed his undergraduate training in China and earned his doctorate in 1997 at the University of Muenster in Germany. His current research focuses on virus-host interactions of norovirus, rotavirus, and influenza virus, through viral receptors and/or host attachment factors, as well as their impacts on viral infection and host susceptibility. He also studies the structural features of noroviral capsids and has generated a few norovirus capsid protein-based nanoparticles as research models to study virus-host interactions and as polyvalent platforms to display other antigens for enhanced immunogenicity for novel vaccine development. He has generated several pseudovirus nanoparticles displaying various viral neutralizing antigens and tested them as promising subunit vaccine candidates against various infectious diseases. Dr. Tan’s publication record includes 123 research papers, four book chapters, and six patents. Four of his patents have been licensed to pharmaceutical companies for further development.