Speakers

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. 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...

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...

Christophe Benoist is a molecular immunologist, currently the Morton Grove-Rasmussen Chair in Immunohematology at Harvard Medical School. He initially trained in France, obtaining an M.D. from the Université de Paris – Bichat/Beaujon and a Ph.D. with P...

John Mekalanos is the Adele Lehman Professor of the Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology at Harvard Medical School. After receiving his Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles in 1978, he moved to the Department of Microbiology and...