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.
The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school of Harvard University,located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston,Massachusetts. The school grew out of the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers,the nation's first graduate training program in population health,which was founded in 1913 and then became the Harvard School of Public Health in 1922.
Professor John Grange died 10 October 2016 was an English immunologist,epidemiologist,researcher,and academic,and was one of Europe's leading tuberculosis specialists.
Myron Elmer "Max" Essex is the Mary Woodard Lasker Professor of Health Sciences,emeritus in the department of immunology and infectious diseases at Harvard University,chair of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health AIDS Initiative (HAI) in the department of immunology and infectious diseases,and chair of the Botswana–Harvard AIDS Institute in Gaborone,Botswana. Essex was one of the first to link animal and human retroviruses to immunosuppressive disease,to suspect that a retrovirus was the cause of AIDS,and to determine that HIV could be transmitted through blood and blood products to hemophiliacs and recipients of blood transfusions. With collaborators,Essex also provided the first evidence that HIV could be transmitted by heterosexual intercourse.
Stefan Hugo Ernst Kaufmann is a German immunologist and microbiologist and is one of the highly cited immunologists worldwide for the decade 1990 to 2000. He is amongst the 0.01% most cited scientists of ca. 7 million scientists in 22 major scientific fields globally.
William R. Jacobs Jr., is a professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Professor of Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in The Bronx,New York,where he is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Jacobs is a specialist in the molecular genetics of Mycobacteria. His research efforts are aimed at discovering genes associated with virulence and pathogenicity in M. tuberculosis and developing attenuated strains for use as vaccines. He is a Founding Scientist at the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV.
Harriet Mayanja-Kizza,MBChB,MMed,MSc,FACP,is a Ugandan physician,researcher,and academic administrator. She is the former Dean of Makerere University School of Medicine,the oldest medical school in East Africa,established in 1924.
Barry R. Bloom is Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and Department of Global Health and Population in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston,where he served as dean of the faculty from 1998 through December 31,2008.
Lalita Ramakrishnan is an Indian-born American microbiologist who is known for her contributions to the understanding of the biological mechanism of tuberculosis. As of 2019 she serves as a professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the University of Cambridge,where she is also a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and a practicing physician. Her research is conducted at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,where she serves as the Head of the Molecular Immunity Unit of the Department of Medicine embedded at the MRC LMB. Working with Stanley Falkow at Stanford,she developed the strategy of using Mycobacterium marinum infection as a model for tuberculosis. Her work has appeared in a number of journals,including Science,Nature,and Cell. In 2018 and 2019 Ramakrishnan coauthored two influential papers in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) arguing that the widely accepted estimates of the prevalence of latent tuberculosis—estimates used as a basis for allocation of research funds—are far too high. She is married to Mark Troll,a physical chemist.
Eric J. Rubin is an American microbiologist,infectious disease specialist,and is currently the editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. He is also an adjunct professor of immunology and infectious diseases and was formerly the Irene Heinz Given Professor and chair of the department of immunology and infectious diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research laboratory works on Mycobacterium tuberculosis,nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTMs),and the development and application of bacterial genetics tools to study the fundamental biology of these pathogenic organisms. He holds an M.D. from the School of Medicine as well as a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University.
Alexander Marson is an American biologist and infectious disease doctor who specializes in genetics,human immunology,and CRISPR genome engineering. He is the Director of the Gladstone-UCSF Institute of Genomic Immunology,and a tenured Professor with a dual appointment in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Microbiology &Immunology at the University of California,San Francisco (UCSF).
Patricia Charache was a physician specializing in infectious disease and microbiology. She was a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for more than 50 years,retiring as a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Pathology,Medicine,and Oncology.
Kaumudi Jinraj Joshipura is an Indian American Epidemiologist,Biostatistician,Dentist &Scientist. She is Adjunct Full Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) at Harvard University and NIH Endowed Chair and Director of the Center for Clinical Research and Health Promotion and a Full Professor at the University of Puerto Rico,Medical Sciences Campus. Her research work has been covered by global media including CNN,ABC,NBC,NHS,Newsweek,Nature,Telegraph,Japanese Journals and Japanese TV etc.
Philip A. Pizzo is an American professor,physician,and scientist. He is the David and Susan Heckerman Professor of Microbiology and Immunology,Emeritus at Stanford University,and founding director of Stanford's Distinguished Careers Institute. He served as the 11th Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine from 2001 to 2012. He spent over two decades at the National Institutes of Health,and has devoted much of his medical career to the diagnosis,management,prevention and treatment of children with cancer and AIDS. He has also focused on the future of higher education,specifically for individuals in mid- to late-life. In 2022,he enrolled as a rabbinical student at the Academy for Jewish Religion,California.
Mireille Kamariza is a Burundian-born American bioscientist and an Assistant Professor in the Bioengineering Department at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. Previously,Kamariza was appointed as a Harvard Junior Fellow for her postdoctoral studies and she completed her doctoral studies in Biology at Stanford University. Her research considers the development of chemical biosensing tools,low cost point-of-care diagnostics,infectious diseases,and global health. In 2020,she was named as one of Chemical &Engineering News's Talented 12.
Anita Kaniz Mehdi Zaidi is a Pakistani physician. She is the President of the Gender Equality Division and Director of Vaccine Development,Global Health Surveillance,Diarrhea and Enteric Diseases at the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation. She has previously served as Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health at the Aga Khan University.
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.
Megan Blanche Murray is an American epidemiologist and an infectious disease physician. She is the Ronda Stryker and William Johnston Professor of Global Health in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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.
India NAP Gail Houston Cassell is an American microbiologist whose research focuses on Mycoplasma species and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. She is vice president of TB drug development at the Infectious Disease Research Institute. In 1994 she was the president of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM).
