The Faz Group
Eduardo Uranga
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Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas
Professor and Chairman, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, and Associate Dean for Research Development and Planning, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas
Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, Associate Dean, Special Projects, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas
Professor and Chairman, Department of Microbiology and Immunology; Professor and Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
North East Methodist Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, San Antonio, Texas
Professor and Chairman, Institute of Virology, University of Rome Medical School, Rome, Italy; Adjunct Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas
Professor, Department of Pathology, Associate Director of WHO Collaborating Center for Tropical Diseases, Director of Medical Mycology Research Center, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of, Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas
Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas
Professor, Department of Pathology, Director of Clinical Microbiology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas
THOMAS ALBRECHT, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas
JEFFREY W. ALMOND, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology University of Reading and Head, School of Animal and Microbial Sciences, England
MICHELLE J. ALFA, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba and Assistant Director, Department of Medical Microbiology, St. Boniface General Hospital, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
G. G. ALTON, DVMS
Former Senior Principal Research Scientist, C.S.I.R.O. Animal Health Research Laboratory, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Parkville, Australia
RAZA ALY, PhD
Professor, Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California
DAVID M. ASHER, MD
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Division of Intramural Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
ELLEN J. BARON, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Diplomate, ABMM, University of California, Los Angeles, Pacific Palisades, California
SAMUEL BARON, MD
Professor and Chairman, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas
DERRICK BAXBY, PhD, MRCPath
Senior Lecturer, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Liverpool; Honorary Microbiologist, Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, England
YECHIEL BECKER, PhD
Carolyn Jane Bandheim Chair, Department of Molecular Virology, Faculty of Medicine The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
NEIL R. BLACKLOW, MD
Richard M. Haidack Distinguished Professor in Medicine, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, and Chairman, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts
MARTIN J. BLASER, MD
Professor and Chairman of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
ISTVAN BOLDOGH, DM&B, PhD
Associate Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas
GEORGE H. BOWDEN, PhD
Professor of Oral Surgery, Department of Oral Biology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
PHILIP S. BRACHMAN, MD
Professor, Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia
JANET S. BUTEL, PhD
Professor and Head, Division of Molecular Virology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
JASON CALHOUN, MD
Professor and Chairman, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas
GILBERT A. CASTRO, PhD
Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, Associate Dean, Special Projects, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas
MILES CLOYD, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas
GARRY T. COLE, PhD
Professor and Chairman, Department of Microbiology, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, Ohio
FRANK M. COLLINS, PhD, DSc
Member, Trudeau Institute Inc., Saranac Lake, New York
ROBERT B. COUCH, MD
Professor and Chairman, Department of Microbiology and Immunology; Professor and Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
JAMES M. CRUTCHER, MD, MPH
Staff Researcher, Malaria Program, Naval Medical Research Institute, Rockville, Maryland
JOHN H. CROSS, PhD
Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland
PURUSHOTHAMA V. DASARAJU, MD
Fellow in Infectious Diseases, Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas
CHARLES PATRICK DAVIS, MD, PhD
North East Methodist Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, San Antonio, Texas
ERIK DE CLERCQ, MD, PhD
Professor of Microbiology and Biochemistry and Chairman, Department of Microbiology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
FERDINANDO DIANZANI, MD
Professor and Chairman, Institute of Virology, University of Rome Medical School, Rome, Italy; Adjunct Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas
DENNIS M. DIXON, PhD
Mycology Program Officer, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
WALTER DOERFLER, MD
Professor of Genetics, Institute of Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Federal Republic of Germany
BARBARA L. DOUGHTY, PhD
Professor, Department of Immunoparasitology, Texas A&M University, College of Veterinary Medicine, College Station, Texas
J. P. DUBEY, MVSC, PhD
Microbiologist, Zoonotic Disease Laboratory, Livestock and Poultry Sciences Institute, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland
GISELA ENDERS, MD
Professor and Honorary Professor for Clinical Virology, Department of Virology, Faculty for Human Medicine, Philipps University, Marburg; Honorary Professor, Faculty for Virology and Microbiology, University of Hohemheim; Head, Institut fur Medizinische Virologies und Infektions and epidemiologie, Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany
DOLORES G. EVANS, PhD
Professor, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, (Gastroenterology) Houston, Texas
DOYLE J. EVANS, JR., PhD
Associate Professor, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, (Gastroenterology) Houston, Texas
HEINZ FELDMANN, MD
Research Fellow, Institute of Virology, Phillipps-University Marburg, Marburg Germany
FRANK FENNER, MD
Professor Emeritus, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
SYDNEY M. FINEGOLD, MD
Professor and Staff Physician, Infectious Disease Section, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, West Los Angeles, California
HORST FINGER, MD
Director (Retired), Institut fuer Hygiene und Laboratoriums- medizin, Klinikum Krefeld, Germany
RICHARD A. FINKELSTEIN, PhD
Curators' Professor, Millsap Distinguished Professor, and Chairman, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Missouri - Columbia School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri
W. ROBERT FLEISCHMANN, JR., PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology,
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston,
Texas
MICHAEL FONS, PhD
Senior Scientist, Gene Medicine, Inc., The Woodlands, Texas
J. R. L. FORSYTH, MD
Director, Microbiological Diagnostic Unit, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
TIMOTHY J. FOSTER, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
HANS R. GELDERBLOM, MD
Director and Professor, Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany
RALPH A. GIANNELLA, MD
Mark Brown Professor of Medicine and Director, Division of Digestive Diseases, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
CLARENCE J. GIBBS, JR., PhD
Deputy Chief, Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies, National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
KAREN L. GOLDENTHAL, MD
Director, Division of Vaccines and Related Products Applications, Office of Vaccines Research and Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Rockville, Maryland
ARMOND S. GOLDMAN, MD
Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Microbiology and Immunology, Human Biological Chemistry and Genetics, and Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas
THOMAS D. GOOTZ, PhD
Principal Research Scientist, Central Research Division, Pfizer, Inc, Groton, Connecticut
SHERWOOD L. GORBACH, MD
Professor, Department of Community Health and Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
M. NEAL GUENTZEL, PhD
Professor , Division of Life Sciences, University of Texas at San Antonio; Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
THOMAS L. HALE, MD
Chief, Department of Enteric Infections, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC
DAVID J. HENTGES, PhD
Professor and Chairman, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, Lubbock, Texas
DONALD HEYNEMAN, PhD
Professor Emeritus,of Parasitology, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California
HERBERT HOF, MD
Professor, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Faculty of Clinical Medicine, University of Heidelberg; Director, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene of the Municipal Hospital, Mannheim, Federal Republic of Germany
STEPHEN L. HOFFMAN, MD, DTMH
Director, Malaria Program, Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
RANDALL K. HOLMES, MD, PhD
Professor and Chairman, Department of Microbiology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado
WALTER T. HUGHES, MD
Professor and Chairman, Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
BARBARA H. IGLEWSKI, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York
MICHAEL G. JOBLING, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver Colorado
RICHARD T. JOHNSON, MD
Professor and Director, Departments of Neurology and Microbiology and Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
RUSSELL C. JOHNSON, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota Medical School-Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota
PETER JURTSHUK, JR., PhD
Professor, Department of Biology, College of Natural Science and Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
ALBERT Z. KAPIKIAN, MD
Head, Epidemiology Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
DORIS S. KELSEY, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
GERALD T. KEUSCH, MD
Chief, Division of Geographic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
KWANG-SHIN KIM, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York
HANS-DIETER KLENK, MD
Professor, Institute of Virology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
GARY R. KLIMPEL, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas
GEORGE S. KOBAYASHI, PhD
Professor, Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
CARL HEINZ WIRSING von KOENIG, MD
Director, Institut fuer Hygiene und Laboratoriumsmedizin Klinikum Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany
CHIEN LIU, MD
Professor Emeritus of Medicine and of Pediatrics, Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas
WALTER J. LOESCHE, DMD, PhD
Professor, Department of Dentistry, University of Michigan School of Dentistry; Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan
JOAN C. M. MACNAB, PhD
Senior Scientist, Medical Research Council Virology Unit; Honorary Lecturer, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland
JON T. MADER, MD
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pathology, Adjunctive Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Member, Marine Biomedical Institute, Chief of Marine Medicine, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas
AUGUSTO JULIO MARTINEZ, MD
Professor, Department of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology, University of Pittsburgh, Presbyterian University Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
DAVID J. McCLAIN, MD
Virology Division, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, Ft. Detrick, Maryland
MICHAEL R. McGINNIS, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology, Associate Director of WHO Collaborating Center for Tropical Diseases, Director of Medical Mycology Research Center, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas
DAVID N. McMURRAY, PhD
Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Texas A & M University College of Medicine, College Station, Texas
ERNEST A. MEYER, ScD
Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health Sciences University School of Medicine, Portland, Oregon
STEPHEN A. MORSE, MSPH, PhD
Director, Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Laboratory Research National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
KAREN MIDTHUN, MD
Senior Medical Reviewer, Division of Vaccines and Related Products Applications, Office of Vaccines Research and Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Rockville, Maryland
JOHN R. MURPHY, PhD
Professor of Medicine (Molecular Genetics) Section of Biomolecular Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, The University Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
DANIEL M. MUSHER, MD
Professor, Departments of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, Chief, Infectious Diseases Section, Baylor College of Medicine; Veterans Administration Hospital, Houston, Texas
STEVEN MYINT, MD, MRCP, MHSM
Professor of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Leicester, Lei, England
HAROLD C. NEU, MD
Professor, Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
LEROY J. OLSON, PhD
Professor, and Vice-Chairman, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas
DAVID ONIONS, PhD, MRCVS
Professor, Head of Department of Veterinary Pathology, The Veterinary School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland
PAUL D. PARKMAN, MD
President, Parkman Associates, Kensington, Maryland
GARY PATOU, BSC, MB, BS, MRCPath
Lecturer, Department of Medical Microbiology, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London, England
MARIA JEVITZ PATTERSON, MD, PhD
Professor, Departments of Microbiology and Pediatrics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
JOHN R. PATTISON, MA, DM, FRCPath
Dean of Medical School and Faculty of Clinical Sciences, University College London Medical School, London, England
LAWRENCE L. PELLETIER, JR., MD
Chief, Medical Service, Wichita Veterans Affairs Medical Center & Professor and Vice-Chairman, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kansas Medical School of Medicine-Wichita, Wichita, Kansas
GUILLERMO I. PEREZ-PEREZ, DSc
Research Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
JOHNNY W. PETERSON, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas
CHARLES J. PFAU, PhD
Professor of Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
DAVID D. PORTER, MD
Professor, Department of Pathology, University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California
BELLUR S. PRABHAKAR, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas
ALAN S. RABSON, MD
Director, Division of Cancer Biology, Diagnosis, and Centers, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
JUSTIN D. RADOLF, MD
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Microbiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious diseases, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas
SHMUEL RAZIN, PhD
Professor and Pro-Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Membrane and Ultrastructure Research, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
JOHN B. ROBBINS, MD
Chief, Laboratory of Developmental and Molecular Immunity, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
BERNARD ROIZMAN, ScD
Joseph Regenstien Distinguished Service Professor of Virology, Marjorie B. Kovler Viral Oncology Laboratories, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
ALLAN R. RONALD, MD, FRCPC, FACP
H.E. Sellers Professor and Head, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
CHARLES E. RUPPRECHT, VMD, MS, PhD
Chief, Rabies Section, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
MILTON R. J. SALTON, ScD
Professor, Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York
ALAN L. SCHMALJOHN, PhD
Virology Division, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland
RACHEL SCHNEERSON, MD
Laboratory of Developmental and Molecular Immunity, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
JOHN RICHARD SEED, PhD
Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
ROBERT E. SHOPE, MD
Professor of Pathology and Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Tropical Diseases, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas
WILLIAM A. SODEMAN, JR., MD
Professor of Medicine and Chief, Division of Gastroenterology Department of Internal Medicine, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, Ohio
SHOUSUN C. SZU, PhD
Laboratory of Developmental and Molecular Immunity, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
PETER C. B. TURNBULL, BSc, MS, PhD
Anthrax Section, Division of Biologics, Public Health Laboratory Service Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
DAVID A. J. TYRRELL, MD, DRCP, FRS
CAMR (Centre for Applied Microbiology & Research) Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
DEREK WAKELIN, PhD, DSc
Dean of the Faculty of Life Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England
DAVID H. WALKER, MD
Professor and Chairman, Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas
THOMAS J. WALSH, MD
Senior Investigator, Head, Mycology Unit Section of Infectious Diseases, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
JOHN A. WASHINGTON, MD
Chairman, Department of Clinical Pathology, Vice Chairman Division of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Head, Section of Microbiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
CAROL L. WELLS, PhD
Professor, Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
RICHARD J. WHITLEY, MD
Professor, of Pediatrics, Microbiology and Medicine, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama
TRACY D. WILKINS, PhD
Strobants Professor of Agricultural Biotechnology, Department of Biochemistry and Anaerobic Microbiology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia
WASHINGTON C. WINN, JR., MD
Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Vermont College of Medicine; Director, Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Medical Center Hospital of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
ROBERT G. YAEGER, PhD
Professor (Retired), Department of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine; and Professor (Retired), Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
MARGUERITE YIN-MURPHY, MA, PhD, Dip Bact
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore; Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Virus Reference & Research (Enterovirus) and Head, WHO National Laboratory for Poliomyelitis Eradication, Singapore
RODRIGO A. ZELEDÒN, ScD
Professor (Research Program in Tropical Disease) Escuela De Medicina Veterinaria, Programa De Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales (PIET), Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica
KATHRYN C. ZOON, PhD
Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Food and Drug Administration Rockville, Maryland
ARIE J. ZUCKERMAN, MD, DSc, FRCP, FRCPath
Professor of Medical Microbiology in the University of London, and Dean, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine London, England