Jian Zhou

Jian Zhou
Born1957 (1957)
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
DiedMarch 1999 (aged 41–42)
NationalityChinese
Alma materUniversity of Queensland
University of Cambridge
Scientific career
FieldsVirology
Immunology
InstitutionsWenzhou Medical College
Zhejiang University
Zhengzhou University

Jian Zhou (Chinese: 周健; pinyin: Zhōu Jiàn; February 24, 1957 – March 9, 1999) was a Chinese virologist and cancer researcher, who with fellow researcher Ian Frazer, invented Gardasil and Cervarix, the vaccines for stimulating human immunological resistance to the cervical cancer-inducing human papilloma virus.[1]

  1. ^ Lowy DR, Schiller JT (May 2006). "Prophylactic human papillomavirus vaccines". J. Clin. Invest. 116 (5): 1167–73. doi:10.1172/JCI28607. PMC 1451224. PMID 16670757.