External Advisory Committee


Brian Wigdahl, PhD (Chair)
Current Position: Professor and Chair, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Disease, Drexel University
Field of Expertise: Immuno- and neuro-pathogenesis of HIV-1, transcriptional regulation of retroviral expression, viral sequence diversity

James Pipas, PhD
Current Position: Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
Field of Expertise: Molecular Biology of SV40; mechanisms of polyomavirus induced cell transformation

Larry R. Stanberry, MD
Current Position: Professor and Chair, Dept. of Pediatrics, Columbia University
Field of Expertise: Pediatric infectious diseases, antiviral drugs, HSV, HPV

Scott McIvor, PhD
Current Position: Professor, Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota
Field of Expertise: Viral Gene Transfer Vectors, Gene therapy, Genetic disease, Cancer.

Dean H. Kedes, MD/PhD
Current Position: Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Field of Expertise: Pathologies of Kaposi’s Sarcoma Associated Herpesvirus (KSHV)