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Barry R. Bloom is Harvard University's Distinguished Service Professor Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and Former Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health. He received a bachelor’s degree and an honorary ScD from Amherst College, and a PhD from Rockefeller University.
Bloom is widely recognized as an outstanding scientist in the area of infectious diseases, vaccines, and international health. He served as a consultant to the White House on International Health Policy from 1977 to 1978, was elected President of the American Association of Immunologists in 1984, and served as President of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in 1985. Bloom was an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received the first Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Research in Infectious Diseases, the John Enders Award of the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 1994, and shared the Novartis Award in Immunology in 1998. He received the Robert Koch Gold Medal for lifetime research in infectious diseases in 1999, and Cyprus’ Order of the Grand Cross of Makarios III, in 2007.
Bloom is chair of the Technical Research Advisory Committee to the Global Programme on Malaria at the World Health Organization, a member of the Ellison Medical Foundation Scientific Advisory Board, and a member of the Pathogens, Immunology and Population Health Strategy Committee for the Wellcome Trust. |
