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, …
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 …
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 …