Title: Senior Investigator Institution: National Institutes of Health Dr. Taubenberger initiated a project to recover the 1918 influenza virus from autopsy tissues of its victims in 1995, and his laboratory published the first 1918 sequence fragments in 1997. Since then, he has worked to determine the complete genetic sequence of the 1918 influenza virus. Dr. …
Month: October 2022
Title: Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology Institution: Mount Sinai School of Medicine Dr. Palese is focusing on understanding the potential role of the regulatory noncoding regions of the 1918 genes, as well as the NP and P genes, in viral pathogenicity. These viral factors form the molecular replication machinery responsible for viral protein production …
Title: Senior Microbiologist, Influenza Branch Institution: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Dr. Tumpey is responsible for the rescue and characterization of infectious influenza viruses containing 1918 genes and for the investigation of the most appropriate countermeasures to prevent disease in the mouse model. Once recombinant viruses are rescued, Dr. Tumpey oversees animal pathotyping under …