Symposium Speaker

Rino Rappuoli, PhD, is Chief Scientist and Head External R&D at GSK Vaccines, based in Siena, Italy and Professor of Vaccines Research at Imperial College, London, UK. Prior positions were head of Vaccine R&D at Novartis, CSO of Chiron Corporation, and...

Dr. Mathis obtained a PhD from the University of Rochester, and performed postdoctoral studies at the Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire des Eucaryotes in Strasbourg, France and at Stanford University Medical Center. She returned to Strasbourg at the...

Michael Wessels is Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Boston Children’s Hospital, John F. Enders Professor of Pediatrics, and Professor of Medicine (Microbiology and Immunobiology) at Harvard Medical School. He received his undergraduate...

Dr. Surana completed his undergraduate education at Indiana University where he received degrees in Biochemistry, Economics, and Biology. He subsequently received his MD and PhD degrees from Washington University in St. Louis. During his graduate work in...

Lloyd Kasper is a Professor Emeritus of Immunology, Microbiology and Medicine at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College where he has been actively involved in basic and applied immunology research supported by grants from the NIH, Immune Tolerance...

Naama Geva-Zatorsky, is a Principal Investigator of biology at the Technion, Faculty of Medicine, Technion Integrated Cancer Center. She is applying systems-biology approaches together with microbiology and immunology to study the interactions between gut...

Anthony Fauci is a physician-scientist who directs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He oversees an extensive research program on infectious diseases such as HIV...

Laurie Comstock is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School with a primary appointment in Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.  She obtained a Ph.D. from Wake Forest University Medical Center studying Borrelia burgdorferi.  She...