Happy New Year 2019! With the new year comes new anticipations and expectations. The Center for Vaccines and Immunology anticipates recruiting new faculty, staff, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate and undergraduate students in 2019.
The CVI will host a half-day retreat for the CVI Faculty, Affiliated Faculty, and Executive Board on February 19
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at the UGA State Botanical Gardens. The goals of the retreat are to review the Center progress and meeting milestones with the Faculty and Executive Board. Time will be set aside to discuss CVI strategies and goals, as well as time for scientific discussions. In addition, Dr. Michelle Booden, Director of Strategic Alliances and Business Development will give a keynote presentation on corporate sponsorship research in the biomedical sciences. Specific funding opportunities will be discussed for CVI Faculty and Affiliated Faculty for non-for-profit and for-profit funding and sponsorships.
If you are interested in learning more about corporate sponsorship for your biomedical research activities, please contact Dr. Booden and she would be eager to discuss your research ideas and targeted goals with you and the possible corporate and not-for-profit options for your research sponsorship. Please contact her at
[email protected]
CVI Affiliated Faculty
Dr. Fikri Avci – Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biol., Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
Dr. Justin Bahl – Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Institute of Bioinformatics
Dr. Melinda Brinley – Department of Population Health
Dr. José Cordero - Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Institute of Bioinformatics
Dr. Harry Dickerson – Department of Infectious Diseases
*Dr. Donald Harn –Department of Infectious Diseases
Dr. Kelsey Hart – Department of Large Animal Internal Medicine
Dr. Biao He – Department of Infectious Diseases
Dr. Jeff Hogan – Department of Veterinary Biosciences & Diagnostic
Imaging
Dr. Mark Jackwood – Department of Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center
Dr. Kimberly Klonowski – Department of Cellular Biology
Dr. Constantinos Kyriakis – Department of Food Animal Diseases – Auburn University
Dr. Eric Lafontaine –Department of Infectious Diseases
*Dr. Nancy Manley – Department of Genetics
Dr. Coutrney Murdock - Department of Infectious Diseases
Dr. Daniel Perez – Department of Poultry Medicine
Dr. Balazs Rada – Department of Infectious Diseases
*Dr. Christine Szymanski – Department of Microbiology, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
*Dr. Steve Stice – Dept. of Animal and Dairy Sciences, Director of the Regenerative Biosciences Center
Dr. Rick Tarleton – Department of Cellular Biology
*Dr. Stephen Trent – Department of Infectious Diseases
Dr. Ralph Tripp – Department of Infectious Diseases
Dr. Wendy Watford – Department of Infectious Diseases
*Executive Board Members