Galit Alter is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a group leader at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard. Alter’s work focuses on the development of systems biology tools to define the correlates of immunity against infectious diseases that ravage the globe. To this end, Alter developed a novel, ever-evolving approach to probing humoral immunity that she termed “systems serology.” Alter uses this novel -omics…
Sarah Fortune is the John LaPorte Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and chair of the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and director of the TB Research Program at the Ragon Institute of MGH, Harvard, and MIT. She received a bachelor of science degree in biology from Yale University and a medical degree from Columbia University’s College of Physicians…
Wouter Koudstaal, PhD, brings over 15 years of R&D experience in academic, biotech, and pharma settings having focused on the discovery and early (preclinical) development of vaccines and therapeutics in the fields of infectious diseases and neuroscience at Crucell, a Dutch biotech company, and Janssen. Moreover, Koudstaal conducted part of his research at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) of Harvard Medical School in Boston and at Imperial College,…
Michael Mina, MD, PhD, is an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a core member of the School’s Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (CCDD). He is additionally an assistant professor in immunology and infectious diseases at the Harvard Chan School and associate medical director in clinical microbiology (molecular diagnostics) in the Department of Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School.…
Anita van den Biggelaar, PhD, is trained as an immunologist and epidemiologist and has always worked in the fields of immunoepidemiology (“applied immunology”), infectious diseases, and vaccinology. Her MSc (1996, with distinction) and PhD (2002, with distinction) were both in the field of immunoparasitology (helminths), involving field trials in Indonesia and Gabon (Central Africa). After a two-year postdoc in the Netherlands, where she skilled her epidemiology and conducted field studies…
Julia W. Wu, ScD, is a Principal Investigator at the Human Immunomics Initiative (HII), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She holds an ScD degree in epidemiology, an MS in statistics, and an MS in molecular genetics. Wu’s research applies innovative epidemiological and statistical methods at the intersection of immunity, aging, and biomarkers, to generate evidence of biological aging and its systematic effect on lifespan, health-span, and aging-related diseases,…