The National Institutes of Health,commonly referred to as NIH,is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late 1880s and is now part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Many NIH facilities are located in Bethesda,Maryland,and other nearby suburbs of the Washington metropolitan area,with other primary facilities in the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina and smaller satellite facilities located around the United States. The NIH conducts its own scientific research through the NIH Intramural Research Program (IRP) and provides major biomedical research funding to non-NIH research facilities through its Extramural Research Program.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is one of the 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH),an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). NIAID's mission is to conduct basic and applied research to better understand,treat,and prevent infectious,immunologic,and allergic diseases.
NYU Grossman School of Medicine is a medical school of New York University (NYU),a private research university in New York City. It was founded in 1841 and is one of two medical schools of the university,the other being the NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine. Both are part of NYU Langone Health.
Robert Ray Redfield Jr. is an American virologist who served as the Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry from 2018 to 2021.
Walter Ian Lipkin is the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and a professor of Neurology and Pathology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. He is also director of the Center for Infection and Immunity,an academic laboratory for microbe hunting in acute and chronic diseases. Lipkin is internationally recognized for his work with West Nile virus,SARS and COVID-19.
The Vaccine Research Center (VRC),is an intramural division of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID),part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH),US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The mission of the VRC is to discover and develop both vaccines and antibody-based products that target infectious diseases.
The University of Kansas School of Medicine is a public medical school located on the University of Kansas Medical Center campuses in Kansas City,Kansas,and also Salina,Kansas,and Wichita,Kansas. The Kansas City campus is co-located with the independent University of Kansas Health System,and they are commonly known collectively as KU Med.
Bernard Moss is a virologist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,part of the United States National Institutes of Health. He is the Chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Viral Diseases and of the NIAID Genetic Engineering Section. He is known for his work on poxviruses.
Julie E. Ledgerwood is an American allergist and immunologist,who is the chief medical officer and chief of the Clinical Trials Program at the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID),part of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda,Maryland. She is a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine.
Nelson L. Michael is an American infectious disease researcher. He has served for nearly 30 years in the United States Army and been directly involved with significant advancements in understanding the pathology of and vaccine development for diseases like HIV,Zika,Ebola and more. Much of his career has been spent at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.
Brian R. Murphy is an American virologist and former co-chief of the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.
Dan Hung Barouch is an American physician,immunologist,and virologist. He is known for his work on the pathogenesis and immunology of viral infections and the development of vaccine strategies for global infectious diseases. He was named the founding director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,and is a founding member and a steering committee member at the Ragon Institute.
Richard Hatchett is an American oncologist and epidemiologist who has been serving as chief executive officer of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) in Oslo and London since 2017. He was awarded the Secretary of Health and Human Services's Award for Distinguished Service.
Kizzmekia "Kizzy" Shanta Corbett is an American viral immunologist. She is an Assistant Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Shutzer Assistant Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute since June 2021.
Vanessa M. Hirsch is a Canadian-American veterinary pathologist and scientist. She is a senior investigator and chief of the nonhuman primate virology section at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Hirsch researches AIDS pathogenesis,the evolution and origins of primate lentiviruses,and HIV vaccine development.
Rick Arthur Bright is an American immunologist,vaccine researcher,and public health official. He was the director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) from 2016 to 2020. In May 2020,he filed a whistleblower complaint,alleging that the Trump administration ignored his early warnings about the COVID-19 pandemic and illegally retaliated against him by ousting him from his role and demoting him to a position at the National Institutes of Health. On October 6,2020,Bright resigned from the government. On November 9 he was named a member of President-elect Joe Biden's coronavirus advisory board.
Michael Joseph Mina is an American epidemiologist,immunologist and physician. He was formerly an assistant professor of Epidemiology &Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,assistant Professor of Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital,Harvard Medical School,and currently Chief Medical Officer at eMed. and Chief Medical and Science Officer at Oncodea.
Robert Wallace Malone is an American physician and biochemist. His early work focused on mRNA technology,pharmaceuticals,and drug repurposing research. During the COVID-19 pandemic,Malone promoted misinformation about the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.
William C. Gruber is an American physician-scientist,pediatrician,and business executive. He is the senior vice president of Pfizer vaccine clinical research and development.
John R. Mascola is an American physician-scientist,immunologist and infectious disease specialist. He was the director of the Vaccine Research Center (VRC),part of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID),National Institutes of Health (NIH). He also served as a principal advisor to Anthony Fauci,director of NIAID,on vaccines and biomedical research affairs. Mascola is the current Chief Scientific Officer for ModeX Therapeutics.
