PREPARE - Key Persons
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- Assistant Professor in Residence / Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health / Director, SARS - CoV - 2 BSL - 3 Research
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- Distinguished Professor and Chief of Epidemiology / Department of Family Medicine and Public Health
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- Professor of Public Health / Executive Director, Newcomb Institute
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- Assistant Professor / San Diego Center for AIDS Research
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- Associate Professor / Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology / Department of Pediatrics
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- Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering and the Halicioğlu Data Science Institute / Executive Committee, Center for Circadian Biology / Member, Center for Wearable Sensors
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- Associate Professor / Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity / Director, Research Ethics Program Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
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- Dean / School of Global Policy and Strategy
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- Professor and Founding Dean / Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
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- Chief Digital Officer
- Chief Medical Officer
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- Professor
- Professor, Department of Pediatrics / Co - Director, Center for Better Beginnings / Associate Director, Altman Clinical & Translational Research Institute
Dr. Chambers is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, and Family and Preventative Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, and co-Director of the Center for Better Beginnings. She is also Clinical Professor in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UCSD, Vice Chair of Clinical Research in the UCSD Department of Pediatrics, Director of the UCSD CTRI Center for Life Course Research, and Director of Clinical Research at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego.
Dr. Chambers is a perinatal epidemiologist specializing in the area of environmental causes of adverse pregnancy outcomes, birth defects, and childhood disabilities, with a special focus on human teratogens (environmental agents that cause birth defects or other adverse prenatal outcomes). She is currently conducting research on the prevention of alcohol related birth defects, the safety in pregnancy of several new medications used for the treatment of maternal health conditions, and the safety of vaccines during pregnancy. Dr. Chambers serves as an advisor to national and international organizations such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the World Health Organization (WHO).
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- Institute Staff Member
- Program Manager / PREPARE Institute / the HIV Institute / San Diego Center for AIDS Research
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- Professor of Medicine / Division of Infectious Disease & Global Public Health
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- Distinguished Professor and Vice Chancellor for Research / Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
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- Assistant Professor / Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
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- Endowed Chair in Dynamic Systems and Control
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- Research Assistant Professor / Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research / La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Areas of Expertise: Emerging infectious disease, viral immunity, T cells
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- Founding Director
- Director, PREPARE Institute
When the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic began its global rampage in 2019, UC San Diego School of Medicine physician, scientist, and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Davey Smith, had an idea. What if scientists could stop pandemics in their tracks?
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- Associate Professor of Pathology / Director of Molecular Microbiology
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- Chairman / Department of Immunology and Microbiology
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- Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine / Director, Institute of Engineering in Medicine
- Shu Chien Chancellor
Dr. Andrew McCulloch is the Shu Chien Chancellor's Endowed Chair in Engineering and Medicine at the University of California San Diego and Director of the Institute for Engineering in Medicine. He earned his bachelor (1981) and Ph.D. (1986) degrees in Engineering Science at the University of Auckland and joined the UC San Diego faculty in 1987. He directs the UCSD Interfaces Graduate Training Program and the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Specialization in Multi-Scale Biology. Dr. McCulloch served as Vice Chair of the Bioengineering Department from 2002 to 2005 and Chair from 2005 to 2008. He is also a member of Qualcomm Institute, the Center for Research on Biological Systems, and a Senior Fellow of the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
Dr. McCulloch was educated at the University of Auckland, New Zealand in Engineering Science and Physiology receiving his Ph.D. in 1986. Dr. McCulloch was an NSF Presidential Young Investigator and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and a Fellow of the Cardiovascular Section of the American Physiological Society. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Bio-Medical Engineering Society, and is currently Associate Editor of PLoS Computational Biology. He also serves on the Executive Council of the International Union of Physiological Sciences.
Dr. McCulloch has published over 250 peer reviewed research article. His lab uses multi-scale engineering approaches to help understand, diagnose and treat heart diseases. They use experimental and computational models to investigate the relationships between the cellular and molecular structure of cardiac muscle and the electrical and mechanical function of the whole heart during ventricular remodeling, heart failure and arrhythmia. The lab is also developing new methods to generate patient-specific models for clinical use and has licensed technologies to startup companies.
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- Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health at UCSD
Dr. Spencer is an Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health at UCSD and Directs the Design Lab Center for Health. He is a physician scientist with the School of Medicine and the Qualcomm Institute at UC San Diego.His work ranges from strengthening healthcare systems in resource limited settings to next generation biometrics and diagnostics, to participatory design for cancer in Appalachia.
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- Institute Staff Member
- Administrative Director / PREPARE Institute / the HIV Institute / San Diego Center for AIDS Research
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- Gary & Mary West Endowed Chair of Innovative Medicine / Executive Vice President
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- President & CEO / Professor, Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research
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- Chairman in AIDS Research
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- Professor of Medicine / Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health / Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Clinical Epidemiology
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- Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences / Director, Altman Clinical & Translational Research Institute ( ACTRI )
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- Director, Artificial Intelligence, Scripps Research Translational Institute
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- Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Dean / School of Global Policy and Strategy
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- Associate Dean, Global Health Sciences
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- Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases
- Director of Informatics
- Vice President for Policy & University Relations
The Search for COVID-19 Prevention and Cure: Addressing the Critical Role of Innate/Adaptive Immunity by Integrating Novel Informatics, Translational Technologies, and Ongoing Clinical Trial Research - Early warning system for SARS-CoV-2 immune escape
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- Professor and Laboratory Head
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- Assistant Professor / Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
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- Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Scientific Affairs
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- Associate Professor / Department of Immunology and Microbiology
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- Associate Professor and Vice Chief of Innovation / Division of Infectious Disease & Global Public Health
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- Associate Professor / Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
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- Director of MOMI CORE
- Professor
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- Associate Professor / Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
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- Director
- Member of the Research Committee
- Professor and Vice Chair for Translational Research / Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine / Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, & Reproductive Sciences
Louise C. Laurent, MD, PhD, is a board-certified perinatologist who specializes in caring for women with high-risk pregnancies. Perinatologists, also known as maternal-fetal medicine specialists, care for pregnant women who have an increased chance that they or their babies will have health concerns. Dr. Laurent's expertise is in treating women who are at risk for preeclampsia or fetal growth restriction.
Dr. Laurent is the director of perinatal research and a professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at UC San Diego School of Medicine. As a physician-scientist, her research uses stem cells to understand early development, including early placental development. She has led several National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded clinical trials that investigate extracellular RNA for predicting and diagnosing pregnancy-associated disorders, such as placental dysfunction.
Dr. Laurent has co-authored book chapters, textbooks and many peer-reviewed articles, and her work has been published in Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine and Cell Stem Cell, among others.
She completed a fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine and a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at UC San Diego School of Medicine. Dr. Laurent earned her medical degree and doctoral degree in biochemistry from UC San Francisco. She is board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology and maternal and fetal medicine.
Dr. Laurent is a member of numerous professional societies, including the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, the Society for Gynecologic Investigation, the International Society for Stem Cell Research and the Perinatal Research Society.
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- Associate Professor / Department of Genomic Medicine and Infectious Disease
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- Professor in Residence / Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
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- Professor and Clinical Research Information Officer / Division of Biomedical Informatics
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- Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Director, Center for Control Systems and Dynamics
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- Associate Professor / Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
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- Assistant Teaching Professor / Department of Computer Science & Engineering
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- Professor, Departments of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine / Director, Center for Network Medicine
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- Professor and Qualcomm Endowed Chair / Department of Computer Science and Engineering / Co - Director, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute
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- Professor of Bioengineering / Professor of Mechanical Engineering
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- Assistant Professor / Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
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- Assistant Professor / Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science / Director, Global Health Equity and Health Justice Research Group
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- Professor, Department of Immunology and MIcrobiology / Senior Director, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative ( IAVI ) Neutralizing Antibody Center
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- Professor
- Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Bioengineering, and Computer Science & Engineering Director, Center for Microbiome Innovation
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- Assistant Professor / Division of Neonatology / Department of Pediatrics
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- Member of the Research Committee
- Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine
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- Associate Professor / Department of Immunology and Microbiology
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- Associate Dean for Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and Professor of Biostatistics / Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
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- Professor / Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
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- Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics / Chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
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- Guest Researcher / Centers for Disease Control
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- Interim Dean / School of Medicine
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- Chairman and Distinguished Professor / Department of Pathology
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- Associate Professor / Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research / La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Areas of Expertise: Immunology and pathogenesis of human viruses such as the flaviviruses dengue virus (DENV) and Zika virus (ZIKV) and the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
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- Professor of Medicine / Division of Infectious Disease & Global Public Health / Director, Antiviral Research Center ( AVRC )
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- Assistant Professor / Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
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- Distinguished Professor and Head of Genetics / Vice Chancellor for Innovation in Therapeutics
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- Professor of Medicine / Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
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- Distinguished Professor and Vice - Chair for Basic Research, Department of Pediatrics / Chief, Division of Host - Microbe Systems & Therapeutics