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Scientific Board

(2003-2010)

Harold Varmus, M.D., Chair of Board and Executive Committee

President and Chief Executive Officer

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

United States

Tadataka (Tachi) Yamada, M.D., Member, Executive Committee

President

Global Health Program

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

United States

Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., Member, Executive Committee

Director, National Institutes of Health

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

United States

Sir Roy Anderson, Ph.D., F.R.S., Member, Scientific Board

Professor and Head

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology 

Imperial College of the University of London

United Kingdom

Alan Bernstein, O.C., Ph.D., F.R.S.C, Member, Scientific Board

Executive Director

Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise

United States

Mary Jane Cardosa, Ph.D., Member, Scientific Board

Professor of Virology

Institute of Health and Community Medicine

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Malaysia

Pierre Chartrand, Ph.D., Member, Scientific Board

Acting President of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research 

Canadian Institutes of Health Research / Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada

Canada

Christine M. Debouck, Ph.D., Member, Scientific Board

Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Consultant

United States

Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., Member, Scientific Board

Director

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

National Institutes of Health

United States

William Foege, M.D., M.P.H., Member, Scientific Board

Senior Fellow

Global Health Program

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

United States

Nirmal Kumar Ganguly, M.D., Member, Scientific Board

Director General

Indian Council for Medical Research

India

Julie Louise Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H., Member, Scientific Board

Former Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Associate Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Fotis C. Kafatos, Ph.D., Member, Scientific Board

Chair in Insect Immunogenetics

Department of Biological Sciences

Faculty of Life Sciences

Imperial College London

United Kingdom

Gerald T. Keusch, M.D., Member, Scientific Board

Assistant Provost for Global Health, Medical Campus 

and Associate Dean for Global Health

Boston University

United States

Francis Kwesi Nkrumah, M.D., Ph.D., Member, Scientific Board

Former Director

Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research

University of Ghana, ACCRA

Ghana

Sir Gustav Nossal, Ph.D., F.R.S., Member, Scientific Board

Department of Pathology

University Of Melbourne

Australia

Odile Puijalon, Ph.D., Member, Scientific Board

Chef de Laboratoire

Institut Pasteur

France

Yiming Shao, M.D., Ph.D., Member, Scientific Board

Chief Expert

National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention

China

Peter A. Singer M.D., M.P.H., F.R.C.P.C., Member, Scientific Board

Senior Scientist, McLaughlin Centre for Molecular Medicine

Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto and University Health Network

Canada

Mark Walport, Ph.D.,MB. BChir., Member, Scientific Board

Director

The Wellcome Trust

United Kingdom

Florence Muringi Wambugu, Ph.D., Member, Scientific Board

President

A Harvest Biotech Foundation International(AHBFI)

Kenya

Yongyuth Yuthavong, Ph.D., Member, Scientific Board

Senior Scientist

National Science and Technology Development Agency

Thailand