Mrs Yongjie Harvey

Yongjie obtained a Master of Science degree from Sichuan Agricultural University, China in 2004, where she carried out a study on agrobacterium mediated gene transformation and particle bombardment transformation in Orchids. She then worked in a company selling HLA genotyping testing kits as a technician before moving to the UK.

Yongjie joined The Pirbright Institute in 2006, where she worked in the Disinfectant Testing group as a Biosafety Assistant to 2012, up to the ISO17025 standard. She then worked as Biosafety adviser in APHA for a year. In 2016, Yongjie returned to The Pirbright Institute, working in the Molecular Virology group for nearly 6 years on several projects aimed at improving foot-and-mouth (FMDV) disease vaccines for East Africa. Yongjie joined the CVIM team as a Scientist in September 2022.