GVN Center and Member Spotlights
Dr. Anthony Amoroso
Associate Director, Division of Clinical Care & Research
Associate Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine
Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, USA
Dr. Akhil Banerjea
Emeritus Scientist
Institute of Advanced Virology, GVN Affiliate
Trivandrum, Kerala, India
Dr. Christine Benn
Professor
University of Southern Denmark
Studiestræde 6, 1455 Copenhagen, Denmark
Dr. Christine Carrington
Professor, Molecular Genetics and Virology
The University of the West Indies
St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
Director, GVN Center of Excellence
Dr. Arnaldo Caruso
Full Professor of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology at the University of Brescia Medical School (Italy)
Head of the Department of Diagnostic Laboratories at the “Spedali Civili” of Brescia (Italy)
President of the Italian Society for Virology (SIV-ISV)
Director of the Laboratory of Microbiology and Virology at the “Spedali Civili” of Brescia (Italy)
Dr. Mike Catton
Director of the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory
The Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Australia
Dr. Roman Chicz
Global Project Head
Recombinant COVID Vaccine Project
Sanofi
Dr. Konstantin Chumakov
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)/Office of Vaccines Research and Review (OVRR), Maryland, USA
Dr. Peter Doherty
The Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
Member researcher, GVN Center of Excellence
Melbourne, Australia
Dr. Matthew Frieman
Associate Professor, The Department of Microbiology and Immunology; Associate Member of The Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health
University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA
Dr. Adolfo García-Sastre
Professor, Department of Microbiology
Director of the Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, USA
Dr. Elodie Ghedin
Chief, Systems Genomics Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Dr. Donald Ingber
Founding Director, Wyss Institute at Harvard University
Professor, Harvard Medical School & Boston Children’s Hospital
Professor at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Dr. Pontiano Kaleebu
Director of the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) and Director of MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit
Dr. Alexander Khromykh
Associate Professor, Deputy Director (Virology), Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre,
School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences
University of Queensland
Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Dr. Marion Koopmans
Head of Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam
Department of Viroscience, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Dr. Florian Krammer
Mount Sinai Professor in Vaccinology
Department of Microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
Dr. Yang Liu
Global Virus Network Board Member
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientific Officer, OncoImmune
Dr. Pan Zheng
Global Virus Network Board Member
Founder, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, OncoImmune
Dr. Sharon Lewin
Director
The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
Melbourne, Australia
Dr. Natàlia Majó
Director
Research Center on Animal Health (Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal-CReSA)
Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology (Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agrolimentaria (IRTA)
Barcelona, Spain
Dr. Gene Morse
Professor
University at Buffalo HIV and HCV Clinical Pharmacology Laboratory
Center for Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Dr. Mihai Netea
Head, Division of Experimental Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine at the Radboud University Medical Center.
Director, GVN Center of Excellence
Dr. Ab Osterhaus
Scientific Director
The Research Center for Emerging Infections and Zoonoses (RIZ)
University of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover
Dr. David Ostrov
Associate Professor
University of Florida, Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Florida College of Medicine
Florida, United States
Dr. Damian Purcell
Head of the Molecular Virology Laboratory in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne
The Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Australia
Dr. Osbourne Quaye
Head of the Virology Laboratory and Lead of Monitoring and Evaluation
West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), University of Ghana
Associate Professor and Head of Department
Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Ghana
Dr. Carlos del Rio
Emory University School of Medicine,
Professor of Global Health and Epidemiology
Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University, USA
Dr. Pardis Sabeti
Professor, Harvard University School of Public Health
Institute Member, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Dr. Mohammad Sajadi
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Clinical Care and Research,
Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, USA
Dr. Richard Scheuermann
Director, La Jolla Campus
Craig Venter Institute
Dr. Raymond Schinazi
Frances Winship Walters Professor of Pediatrics
Director of the Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology
Co-Director of the HIV Cure Scientific Working Group within the NIH-sponsored Emory University Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Dr. Zhengli Shi
Director, Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, China
Director, GVN Center of Excellence
Dr. Robert Silverman
Center for Innate Immunity Research (CIIR) at Lerner Research Institute at Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA
Dr. Rohit Talwani
Associate Professor of Medicine, Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, GVN Center of Excellence
Chief, Section of Infectious Diseases, VA Maryland Healthcare System
Service Chief for General Infectious Diseases Consult Team at UMMC, USA
Dr. David Topham
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Rochester Medical Center, URMC
Rochester, USA
Dr. Linfa Wang
Director, GVN Center of Excellence
GVN SARS-CoV-2 Task Force Member
Director of the Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases
Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
Dr. Paul Young
Head of School
School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences
Affiliated Professor, Institute for Molecular Bioscience
University of Queensland (UQ)