The Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard


	Overview
	History
	Leadership

Ragon Leadership
Ragon Program Leaders
Research at the Ragon Institute is organized around eight scientific programs, each led by a Scientific Steering Committee member.
Program: Adaptive T Cell Immunity		Program: Innate Immunity

Bruce Walker, M.D. Director, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard Professor of Medicine, Harvard University Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute		Marcus Altfeld, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Medicine, Harvard University Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard
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Program: Vaccine/Vector Design		Program: Adaptive B Cell Immunity

Dan Barouch, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Medicine, Harvard University Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School		Dennis Burton, Ph.D. Professor, Scripps Department of Immunology The Scripps Research Institute
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Program: Computational Biology		Program: Genetics

Arup K. Chakraborty, Ph.D. Professor of Chemical Engineering Professor of Chemistry Professor of Biological Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)		Mary Carrington, Ph.D. Director, Basic Sciences NCI, SAIC-Frederick
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Program: Basic Immunology		Program: Technology Development

Laurie Glimcher, M.D. Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology, Harvard School of Public Health Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Harvard School of Public Health Dept. of Immunology and Infectious Diseases		Darrell J. Irvine Professor Department of Biological Engineering Department of Materials Science & Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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Scientific Advisory Board

Mark Davis PhD
Director of the Stanford Institute for Immunology, Transplantation and Infection (ITI), Professor of microbiology and immunology, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Rafi Ahmed, PhD
Georgia Research Alliance Scholar in Vaccine Research, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology in the Emory University School of Medicine. Director, Emory Vaccine Center

Barton Haynes, MD
Director, Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology. Frederic M. Hanes Professor of Medicine and Immunology. Director, DHVI Laboratory of Immunogen Design. Director, Monoclonal Antibody Core Facility.

David Baltimore, PhD
Robert A. Millikan Professor of Biology at Caltech. Recipient of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Skip Virgin, MD, PhD
Edward Mallinckrodt Professor and Chair, Pathology and Immunology; Professor, Molecular Microbiology; Professor, Medicine; Immunology Program; Human and Statistical Genetics Program; Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program

Eric Lander, PhD
Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a member of the Whitehead Institute, and director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Co-chair of President Obama's council of science and technology advisers

Bette T. Korber, PhD
Staff Scientist, LANL; Visiting Professor, External Professor, Santa Fe Institute

M. Juliana McElrath MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Associate Head, FHCRC Program in Infectious Diseases; Director, FHCRC/UW HIV-1 Vaccine Evaluation Unit

Robert S. Langer Sc.D
David H. Koch Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

John J. Mekalanos, PhD
Adele Lehman Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Department Chair, Harvard Medical School