[GlobalHealth] Reminder: Washington Global Health Alliance Discovery lecture: Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, MONDAY June 9, 5:30p, Foege Auditorium

[Daren Wade]

"Innovation for the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases"

Peter Hotez, MD, PhD

Walter G. Ross Professor and Chair of the Department of 

Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine,

The George Washington University

 

When: Monday, June 9, 2008 5:30 p.m.

Where: Foege Auditorium S-060, 

Genome Sciences Building, 

1705 NE Pacific St. Seattle, WA 98195

University of Washington Campus


Reception to follow in the Vista Café

 

Peter Hotez is the Walter G. Ross Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine at The George Washington University, where his major research and academic interest is in the area of vaccine development for neglected tropical diseases and their control. Prof. Hotez is also the President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, a non-profit medical research and advocacy organization.  Through the Institute, he founded the Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative, a product development partnership supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to develop a recombinant vaccine for human hookworm disease, and the Global Network for Tropical Neglected Diseases Control, a new partnership formed to facilitate the control of neglected tropical diseases in developing countries. He is also the Founding Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Tropical Neglected Diseases.

 

Nicole Caven
Program Coordinator | Global Health Resource Center
University of Washington, Department of Global Health
1959 NE Pacific St. | Box 356355 | Seattle, WA 98195-6355
Health Sciences Building | Room T433
206 685-7362 (p) | 206 543-6580 (f)
cavenn at u.washington.edu | ghrc at u.washington.edu
GHRC Web: http://depts.washington.edu/deptgh/ghrc/index.html

 

Take a look at the new Global Health Calendar:

http://myuw.washington.edu/cal/showMain.rdo?date=20080503&calendar=ghrc

 
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