Dr. Van Phan Le presently serves as an
Associate Professor and Lecturer for the Department of Microbiology and
Infectious Disease within the College of Veterinary Medicine of Vietnam
National University of Agriculture (VNUA), Hanoi, Vietnam. He has also been
appointed vice head of the Key Laboratory for Veterinary Biotechnology, VNUA.
Dr. Van Phan Le received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from VNUA and his
Master of Science from Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea. After
receiving his Doctor of Philosophy from Chung-Ang University, Republic of
Korea, Dr. Van Phan Le continued his postdoctoral studies at the Animal and
Plant Quarantine Agency, Republic of Korea, for three years, focusing on
essential animal diseases like foot and mouth diseases and Newcastle diseases.
Dr. Van Phan Le is the author/co-author of more than 80 ISI/Scopus publications
and one patent in the US. His current research interests continue his good work
and focus on the molecular and genetic characterization of animal pathogens to
develop new vaccines and improve diagnostic methods.
Dr. Aruna Ambagala is the Section Head at the Mammalian
Diseases Unit and the WOAH (OIE) reference laboratory expert for African and
classical swine fevers at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency—National Centre
for Foreign Animal Disease, Winnipeg, Canada. Dr. Aruna Ambagala received his
Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Sri Lanka in 1994 and his PhD from
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE, USA, in 2003. He completed his
post-doctoral training in Molecular Virology at the National Institutes of
Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, and the University of Toronto. Dr. Aruna
Ambagala joined the CFIA in 2010 as a Research Scientist. Dr. Aruna Ambagala
holds adjunct appointments at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine-University of
Calgary, the Department of Animal Sciences, and the Department of Medical
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases—University of Manitoba. His Research
Keywords are Classical swine fever, Pseudorabies, African swine fever, and
Bluetongue and Schmallenberg disease.
