Bruce D. Walker

Bruce D Walker is an American physician and scientist.

Biography

An infectious disease specialist and researcher, Walker is the director of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard. The institute is a collaborative venture including Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, with the initial goal of contributing to the development of an effective HIV vaccine. He is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, an adjunct faculty member at Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, and a founding scientist at the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH).[1]

Walker was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2004.[2] He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2009.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Founding scientists". KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Faculty, alumni named AAAS fellows". Case Western Reserve University. November 15, 2004. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Bruce D. Walker, M.D.". National Academy of Medicine. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
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