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Appendix F: About the Authors
Appendix F: About the Authors
Pages 131-138
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and the Director of the Department of Defense Medical Chemical and Biological Defense Research Program. He also served as one of the first Directors of the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasure Center (NBACC)
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Carucci, MD, MSc, PhD, is the President of Global Health Consulting, Inc., providing profit and non-profit organizations, international NGOs, multilateral and service organizations who are working toward improving the impact of global health investments. The organization provides strategic and technical assistance in global health to major international private sector corporations focused on increasing demand for quality health products and services, improving integration of health services across sectors, leveraging corporate capabilities applied to global health, and supporting large-scale global health programs.
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She has testified before Congress about the safety and security of high-containment biological laboratories in the United States and served on several task forces related to laboratory security, including a 2008 Defense Science Board task force and a 2008 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel charged with providing technical input on the risk of operating Boston University's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory (NEIDL)
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He comes to Colorado State University from the University of New Mexico Health Science Center in Albuquerque where he was professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Infectious Diseases and Immunology. His scientific expertise is in developing animal models of human diseases that can be used to translate products into humans.
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Rabies: long running studies leading to the identification of more than 25 viruses as members of the virus family Rhabdoviridae, identification and characterization of the first rabies-like viruses, and major studies of rabies pathogenesis in experimental animals, including the initial descriptions of infection events in salivary glands and in muscle; (2) Arboviruses: long running studies of togaviruses and bunyaviruses with the initial proposal for the establishment and naming of the virus family Bunyaviridae, and characterization of "reo-like" viruses culminating in the establishment and naming of the virus genus Orbivirus; (3)
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Swearengen, DVM, is the Comparative Medicine Veterinarian for the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center and a former Senior Director of the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care, International (AAALAC International)
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Dr. Anestidou serves as an expert reviewer in the Ethics Evaluation of grant applications to the 7th Framework Program of the European Research Council and the European Commission Directorate General Research.
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