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Dr. John Mascola
 Dr.
John Mascola has joined the Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine
Research Center (VRC) as Deputy Director. His distinguished
career in infectious disease and retrovirus research has
provided important information about HIV, specifically
in the areas of antibody-mediated protection from HIV
and mucosal HIV transmission. He has been an active participant
on the NIAID AIDS Research Review Committee, NIAID AIDS
Immunology Study Section, and NIH Vaccine Study Section.
As Deputy Director, Dr. Mascola will be
involved in the planning of VRC goals and research agenda.
He will oversee the BSL3 facility in its basic and applied
research activities, and promote programs that meet
the VRC's scientific objectives. He will also represent
the VRC at NIH planning and advisory meetings, and at
national and international conferences and workshops.
Prior to joining the VRC, Dr. Mascola
was a Research Scientist in the Division of Retrovirology
at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Rockville,
where he was head of the department of HIV prevention
research and assistant head of the department of HIV
vaccine development. He also held concurrent appointments
of associate professor of medicine at the Uniformed
Services University of the Health Sciences and research
physician at the Naval Medical Research Center.
After graduating magna cum laude
from Tufts University and earning his medical degree
at Georgetown University School of Medicine, Dr. Mascola
completed an internship and residency in internal medicine
at the Naval Hospital in San Diego. He then accepted
a fellowship in infectious diseases at the National
Naval Medical Center, followed by a fellowship in retroviral
diseases at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.
Dr. Mascola is a fellow of the American College of Physicians,
and a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
and the American Association for the Advancement of
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