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Appendix B: Panel and Staff Biographies
Appendix B: Panel and Staff Biographies
Pages 83-93
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Dr. Bloom chairs the WHO-UNAIDS Vaccine Advisory Committee and serves on the National AIDS Vaccine Research Committee.
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He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1957 and is a charter member of the Institute of Medicine. He is currently a member of other NRC panels, the National Research Council Committee on Biological Threats to Agricultural Plants and Animals, the National Academy of Science Committee on International Security and Arms Control, the Defense Science Board, and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Threat Reduction Advisory Committee.
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Dr. Franz served as Chief Inspector on three United Nations Special Commission biological warfare inspection missions to Iraq, and as technical advisor on long-term monitoring.
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Dr. Jones is an internationally recognized expert in the diverse disciplines of advanced medical and surgical technologies and biological warfare defense and is a regularly invited consultant to a variety of DoD strategic panels.
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SIMON LEVIN, Ph.D., is the George M Moffett Professor of Biology in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Associate Faculty Member in the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University, where he was also the Founding Director of the Princeton Environmental Institute.
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Among the many awards and honors he has received are the Senior Scholar Award in Global Infectious Disease from the Ellison Medical Foundation, and the Squibb Award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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His clinical activities involve diagnostic molecular genetic pathology. He is board certified in Anatomic Pathology and Molecular Genetic Pathology.
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His major research interests include nuclear strategy, ballistic missile defense, chemical and biological weapons proliferation, and arms control. His most recent work involves an analysis of national and theater ballistic missile defense.
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She has served as Research Director and Senior Editorial Consultant to the National Bioethics Advisory Commission and as Senior Advisor to the President's Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans Illnesses. In the 1980s and early 1990s Dr.
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During this time, she also discovered that bacteria produce isoprene and holds a patent for optimizing this production as a biogenic isoprene source for rubber synthesis. Following her graduate work, she was a Research Fellow at the Rockefeller University where she was part of a team that identified a novel signal transduction intermediate, cyclic ADP-ribose, as a trigger for plant responses to cold, drought, and salinity.
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She has been with the National Academy of Sciences since 1987 and has provided administrative support for over 30 published reports.
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