Jian Zhou (Chinese: 周健; pinyin: Zhōu Jiàn; February 24, 1957 – March 9, 1999) was a Chinese virologist and cancer researcher, who with fellow researcher Ian Frazer, invented Gardasil and Cervarix, the vaccines for stimulating human immunological resistance to the cervical cancer-inducing human papilloma virus.

He subsequently earned a master's degree from Zhejiang Medical University, where he pursued his research interest in HPV.

[4] Frazer convinced Zhou to join him at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, and in 1990 they began to use molecular biology to synthesize particles in vitro that could mimic the virus.

[9][10] Frazer and Zhou filed a provisional patent in June 1991 and began work on developing the vaccine within UQ.

To finance clinical trials, Australian medical company CSL, and later Merck, were sold partial patents.