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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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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