Charles Chiu

Charles Chiu is an Assistant Professor in Laboratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco. He is also the Director of UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center (VDDC) at China Basin and Associate Director of the UCSF Clinical Microbiology Laboratory. Dr. Chiu is an expert in the emerging field of viral metagenomics and his research is focused on the development of microarray and deep sequencing technologies for viral pathogen discovery and clinical diagnostics.