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Positions
- Dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Houston, United States
- Professor
- Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Houston, Texas, United States
- Endowed Chair in Tropical Pediatrics
- Texas Children's Hospital
- Houston, Texas, United States
- Director
- Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development
- Houston, Texas, United States
- Founding Editor in Chief
- PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
- University Professor
- Baylor University
- Houston, Texas, United States
- Fellow in Disease and Poverty
- James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
- Rice University
- Houston, Texas, United States
- Health Policy Scholar
- Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy
- Baylor College of Medicine
Education
- M.D. from Weill Cornell Medical College
- Ph.D. from The Rockefeller University
- B.A. (magna cum laude) from Yale University
Professional Interests
- Drug and Vaccine Delivery
- Tropical Medicine
Projects
- Human Hookworm Vaccine
- Development of a vaccine for the more than 400 million people suffering from hookworm infection in the world today. Vaccine currently in phase 1 clinical trials in Brazil and Gabon.
- Schistosomiasis Vaccine
- Schistosomiasis afflicts over 200 million people around the globe and is the deadliest disease among the seven most prevalent NTDs, killing an estimated 280,000 people annually. Our vaccine is entering phase 1 clinical trials.
- Chagas Disease and Leishmaniasis Vaccine
- A project for the selection and discovery of antigens appropriate to advance into the development process of new vaccines to combat Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) and leishmaniasis.
- SARS Vaccine
- A new vaccine to prevent severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). A prototype RBD219 N1 vaccine is entering scale-up process development
- Multivalent Anthelmintic Vaccine Discovery
- A panhelmintic vaccine to prevent ascariasis (roundworm) and trichuris (whipworm), soil-transmitted helminths afflicting hundreds of millions of people around the world.