Chien-Che Hung

DVM, MS, PhD, DACVM (Bacteriology & Mycology), DACVM (Virology)
Assistant Professor
Microbiology
CVM, University of Illinois
Urbana, Ill.

Dr. Hung is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Microbiologists (ACVM) in bacteriology, mycology and virology. He received his bachelor of veterinary medicine degree and a master degree from National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. In 2006, he joined the Comparative Biomedical Science program at Cornell University for his Ph.D. and his research focused on bacterial pathogenesis, specifically in salmonellosis. After graduation, he continued to be a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell while concurrently obtaining the clinical microbiology training from the New York State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory located on Cornell campus. In 2017, Dr. Hung moved to Hong Kong and worked in a commercial laboratory as the Head of Microbiology. There, he provided the microbiology services for Hong Kong and Singapore veterinary communities, including the companion and exotic animal hospitals, zoo and racing horse club. In 2019, Dr. Hung joined the University of Illinois Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (VDL) as an Assistant Professor and worked with the VDL microbiology team to provide the bacterial and fungal diseases diagnostic services.

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Chien-Che Hung