José Antonio Melero Awardee - Ryan Thwaites
Early Career Investigator Award
Bio
Dr Ryan Thwaites is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Respiratory Immunology within the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London. Ryan’s work focusses on the immune response to viral infections in the human airway mucosa. This has included observational studies of natural infections in infants and adults, alongside controlled…
Harish Nair
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Professor Harish Nair is co-Director of Centre for Global Health as well as co-Director of WHO Collaborating Centre for Population Health Research and Training at the University of Edinburgh. He is Chair of Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Global Health at the Edinburgh Medical School and leads the Respiratory Viral Epidemiology…
Asuncion Mejias
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Asuncion Mejias is Professor of Pediatrics and Member at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, in Memphis, TN, USA. For the past 25 years Dr. Mejias has been studying the pathogenesis of respiratory viral infections in infants and young children, with special emphasis on respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). She has…
Nicholas Lukacs
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Nicholas W. Lukacs, Ph.D. is the Godfrey D. Stobbe Professor of Pathology at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He received his Ph.D. from Wayne State University in 1992 and was first appointed as a faculty member at the University of Michigan in 1994. He…
Alexis Kalergis
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Dr. Alexis Kalergis is a Full Professor at the Schools of Biological Sciences and Medicine of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a Doctor in Microbiology and Immunology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He did two postdoctoral studies at Albert Einstein and the Rockefeller…
Ursula Buchholz
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Dr. Buchholz leads the RNA Viruses Section (RVS) of the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland. Her lab studies the molecular virology, pathogenesis, and immune response of RSV, human metapneumovirus, and parainfluenza viruses. These respiratory pathogens are associated with a major burden of disease in young infants, the…
Mark Jit
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Mark Jit is the inaugural chair and a professor in the Department of Global and Environmental Health at NYU, New York, USA. He was formerly head of the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology & Dynamics and co-director of the Global Health Economics Centre (GHECO) at the London School of Hygiene…
James Crowe
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Dr. Crowe is Director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center and the Ann Scott Carell Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is a board-certified pediatric infectious diseases physician and viral immunology researcher. His laboratory studies the human immune response to infection for a wide…
Frederico Martinon Torres
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Federico Martinón-Torres is a pediatrician and clinical researcher, currently the coordinator and head of Pediatrics and Director of Translational Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases (Best ID Unit of Spain 2018 to 2023) at the Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago (Spain), and Professor in Pediatrics (University of Santiago). Professor Martinón-Torres runs the…
