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Appendix A.1: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 125-130

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... He also currently serves as the director of the Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine of the Siberian Branch of RAS and as professor of molecular biology and chair of the Department of Molecular Biology at Novosibirsk State University. He also is chair of the Bio 125
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... Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) and as deputy commander of the Medical Research and Materiel Command.
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... ; new antiviral drugs and production technology -- Triazavirin -- with wide spectra of antiviral activity; and others in the field of influenza. He has published 12 books in the fields of influenza, prions, herpes virus infection treatment, papilloma virus pathogenesis, and cancer development.
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... He also served as director, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, coordinating research activities, prevention initiatives, and outbreak investigations for viral and rickettsial pathogens, including viral hemorrhagic fevers, influenza and other respiratory infections, childhood viral diseases, and newly emerging diseases such as SARS. He served as the associate director for global health in the Office of the Director, National Center for Infectious Diseases at CDC, and he was a medical officer in charge of arboviruses and viral hemorrhagic fevers at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland (1992–1996)
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... His recent work in collaboration with Garcia-Sastre has revealed that most negative strand RNA viruses possess proteins with interferon antagonist activity, enabling them to counteract the antiviral response of the infected host. At present, he serves on the editorial board for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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... Army, most recently as commanding general of the Army Medical Research and Material Command at Fort Detrick, Maryland, where he led development of a sophisticated telecommunications infrastructure to speed diagnostics, lab analyses, and consulting expertise worldwide. He is a cardiovascular surgeon who was professor and chairman of the division of cardiothoracic surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
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