Zhi Ming Xu

Zhi Ming Xu is part of a research team that has been working on the topic 'Host genetics of life-threatening SARS-CoV-2 infection in previously healthy patients'. This study is examining the genetic factors predisposing patients to develop COVID-19 in order to inform drug and vaccine development. The researchers will sequence the genome and the blood transcriptome of selected COVID-19 patients younger than 50 and without other risk factors yet who required ventilation in an intensive care unit. This line of research is relevant to the diagnosis and testing of COVID-19.