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]

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gollark: - So that women aren't forced to bear children they don't want to, mandatory sterilization for all - children would be grown in vats and raised by the government instead of being "born".
gollark: Ethics, mostly.
gollark: - To reduce bias in government decision making we will use a random number generator for all major policy problems.
gollark: - To ensure our ancestors' traditions are respected, we should randomly dig them up and drag them to voting booths.

References
  1. "Founding scientists". KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV. Archived from the original on 2014-09-01. 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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