Former Senior Investigators, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases

Peter Collins, Ph.D.

Peter L. Collins, Ph.D.

Peter L. Collins, Ph.D.

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Former Chief, RNA Viruses Section

Current Status: Retired

Current Email Address: pcollins@niaid.nih.gov

Currently advising Laboratory of Infectious Diseases on respiratory virus vaccine development.

Ellie Ehrenfeld, Ph.D.

Ellie Ehrenfeld, Ph.D.

Ellie Ehrenfeld, Ph.D.

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Former Chief, Picornavirus Replication Section

Current Status: Retired

Current Email Address: ellieehrenfeld@gmail.com

Current efforts are focused on the global polio eradication initiative as an advisor to the World Health Organization and through consultation with other relevant organizations.

Suzanne U. Emerson, Ph.D

Suzanne U. Emerson, Ph.D

Suzanne U. Emerson, Ph.D

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Former Chief, Molecular Hepatitis Section

Current Status: Retired

Current Email Address: suzanne.emerson1@verizon.net

Yasutaka Hoshino, D.V.M.

Former Chief, Rotavirus Vaccine Development Section

Current Status: Retired

John T. Patton, Ph.D.

John T. Patton, Ph.D.

John T. Patton, Ph.D.

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Former Chief, Rotavirus Molecular Biology Section

Current Status: Blatt Chair of Virology; Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Indiana University

Current Email Address: jpatton@iu.edu

Alexander Pletnev, Ph.D., D.Sci.

Alexander Pletnev, Ph.D., D.Sci.

Alexander Pletnev, Ph.D., D.Sci.

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Former Chief, Neurotropic Flaviviruses Section

Current Status: Special Volunteer
Current Email Address: apletnev@niaid.nih.gov
Currently providing expertise and advising NIAID on development vaccines against neurotropic flaviviruses and on control of viral tropism and pathogenesis

Robert H. Purcell, M.D.

Robert H. Purcell, M.D.

Robert H. Purcell, M.D.

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Former Chief, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases

Former Chief, Hepatitis Viruses Section

Current Status: Special Volunteer

Current Email Address: rpurcell@niaid.nih.gov

Current efforts are focused on completing projects, writing manuscripts, and providing expertise for patents and patent applications

Kanta Subbarao, M.B.B.S., M.P.H.

Kanta Subbarao, M.B.B.S., M.P.H.

Kanta Subbarao, M.B.B.S., M.P.H.

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Former Chief, Emerging Respiratory Viruses Section

Current Status: Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity

Current Email Address: kanta.subbarao@influenzacentre.org

Kathryn C. Zoon, Ph.D. 

Kathryn C. Zoon, Ph.D.

Kathryn C. Zoon, Ph.D.

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Former Scientific Director, Division of Intramural Research

Former Chief, Cytokine Biology Section

Current Status: Scientist Emeritus

Current Email Address: kzoon@comcast.net    

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