Program Members
Our 100+ members to date, hail from across the country and the world and are based in academia, government, and industry. A list of current members and their contact information can be found here:
Photo of are some of our local PVP members:
LR Back: Al Ozonoff, Dan Evans, Spencer Brightman, Simon van Haren, Hanno Steen, Michael Wessels, Stephen Walsh, Peter Flynn, Diana Vo
LR Front: Guzman Sanchez-Schmitz, Kristin Johnson, Ofer Levy, Carlo Pietrasanta, Sweta Joshi, Wing Ki Cheng
Ofer Levy, MD, PhD
Director, Precision Vaccines Program
Principal Investigator, Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Peter Aaby, MSc, DMSc
Head of Bandim Health Project, Guinea-Bissau
Statens Serum Institute (SSI)
Mustafa Akkoyunlu, MD, PhD
Senior InvestigatorUS Food and Drug Administration, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
Office of Vaccines Research and Review,
Division of Bacterial, Parasitic and Allergenic Products,
Laboratory of Bacterial Polysaccharides
Peter Andersen, DVM, DMSc
Professor & Vice PresidentVaccine R&D
Division of Vaccine, Statens Serum Institute
Alexander K. Andrianov, PhD
Research Professor
Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
University of Maryland
Lindsey Baden, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, HMS
Director of Clinical Research, Div of Infectious Diseases, BWH
Director of Infectious Diseases, DFCI
Christine Benn, MD, PhD
Head of Department, Professor in Global HealthBandim Health Project
Statens Serum Institute (SSI)
Louis Bont, MD, PhD
Pediatrician Infectiologist-Immunologist
University Medical Center Utrecht
David Cantonwine, PhD
Instructor in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology Institution; Brigham and Women's Hospital
Dennis Christensen, PhD
Project leader,
Cand. Pharm., PhD
Vaccine Adjuvant Research
Dept. Infectious Disease Immunology
Division of Vaccines Statens Serum Institute
Helen Christou, MD
Assistant in Medicine, Boston Children's HospitalAssistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Director, Harvard Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Training Program
Robert Coffman, PhD
Andrew Currie, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Immunology/Senior Research Fellow, Murdoch University
Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne
Head of Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of General Medicine, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne
Leader, Infectious Diseases & Microbiology Group, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Katie Flanagan, MBBS, PhD
Eva Guinan, MD
Professor, Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School
Associate in Medicine, Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital
Director, Translational Research, Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Canada Research Chair, University of British Columbia Killam Chair Professor, Department of Micriobiology and Immunology, UBC Director, Center for Microbial Diseases and Immunity Research, UBC
Robert Hancock, PhD
Jeffrey Hubbell, PhD
Barry L. MacLean Professorship for Molecular Engineering Innovation and Enterprise Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Illinois
Jonathan Kagan, PhD
Staff Scientist, Division of Gastroenterology, Boston Children's Hospital
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Beate Kampmann, MD, PhD, FRCPCH
Professor of Paediatric Infection & ImmunityDirector of the Centre for International Child Health CICH@Imperial
Tobias Kollmann, MD, PhD
Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia
Pediatric Infectious Disease Consultant, BC Children's Hospital
Senior Clinician Scientist, CFRI
Thomas McElrath, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Mihai G. Netea, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine Radboud University Medical Center
Peter Nigrovic, MD
Assistant in Medicine; Director, Center for Adults with Pediatric Rheumatic Illness (CAPRI), Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor
Al Ozonoff, PhD
Director, Center for Patient Safety and Quality Research, Boston Children's HospitalAssociate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Sallie Permar, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine
Stanley Plotkin, MD
Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics, University of PennsylvaniaVaxconsult
William Pomat, PhD
Deputy Director of Science and Research and Head of Infection and Immunity Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research
Steven G. Reed, PhD
Founder, President, & Chief Scientific Officer, IDRI
Founder & Director, Afrigen Biologics
Affiliate Professor, Global Health, University of Washington
Peter Richmond, MBBS, MRCP (UK), FRACP
Associate Professor, UWA School of Paediatrics and Child Health (M561) Director, Vaccine Trials Group, Telethon Kids Institute Co-Director, Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, Telethon Kids Institute
Consultant Paediatric Immunologist and Paediatrician, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children
Director, Child Health Research Network, Child and Adolescent Health Service
Director, Dept. Child Health Research, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children
Ronald Samuels, MD, MPH
Associate Director Primary Care at Longwood, Boston Children's Hospital 
Annette Scheid, MD
Staff Scientist, Division of Infectious Diseases Boston Children’s Hospital
Frank Shann, MB, BS, DMedSc
Professorial Fellow in the Department of Paediatrics, University of MelbourneHonorary Staff Specialist in Intensive Care, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Hanno Steen, PhD
Director of the Proteomics Center, Boston Children's Hospital Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Tobias Strunk, MD, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor, Newborn Infection and Immunity ResearchUniversity of Western Australia
Scott Tebbutt, PhD
Associate Professor - Centre for Heart Lung Innovation & Department of Medicine (Respiratory Division), University of British ColumbiaChief Scientific Officer - Centre of Excellence for Prevention of Organ Failure (PROOF Centre)
Anita H.J. van den Biggelaar, PhD
Centre Manager & Sr Research FellowWesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases
Telethon Kids Institute
Geert Vanden Bossche, DVM, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) and Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) at UNIVAC NV
Xiaoyang Wang, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Jerrold Weiss, PhD
Professor of Internal Medicine & Micriobiology, Inflammation Program, University of Iowa
Clifford Woolf, MB, BCh, PhD
Director, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children's HospitalProfessor of Neurology and Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
James L. Wynn, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal MedicineAssociate Professor of Experimental Medicine, Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine
Associate Director, Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship Program, University of Florida
Senior Advisors:
Gary Fleisher, MD
Research Strategy Committee Chair Physician-in-Chief, Pediatrician-in-Chief, and Chairman, Department of Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital Egan Family Foundation Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Michael Wessels, MD
John F. Enders Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Medicine (Microbiology and Immunobiology), Harvard Medical SchoolChief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital
