The Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard


	Overview
	History
	Leadership


Ragon Institute Structure and Leadership Research at the Ragon Institute is organized around eight scientific programs, each led by a Scientific Steering Committee member.
Ragon Program Leaders
Program: Adaptive T Cell Immunity
	Bruce Walker, M.D. Director, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard Professor of Medicine, Harvard University Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute 149 13th Street, Room 5212D MGH - East Charlestown, MA 02129 phone: (617) 724-8332 email: bwalker@partners.org / research page

Program: Innate Immunity
	Marcus Altfeld, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard 149 13th Street MGH - East Charlestown, MA 02129 phone: (617) 724-2461 email: maltfeld@partners.org / research page

Program: Vaccine/Vector Design
	Dan Barouch, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School 330 Brookline Avenue E/CLS - 1047 Boston, MA 02215 phone: (617) 735-4485 email: dbarouch@bidmc.harvard.edu / research page

Program: Adaptive B Cell Immunity
	Dennis Burton, Ph.D. Professor, Scripps Department of Immunology The Scripps Research Institute 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road, IMM-2 La Jolla, CA 92037 phone: (858) 784-8360 email: burton@scripps.edu / research page

Program: Computational Biology
	Arup K. Chakraborty, Ph.D. Professor of Chemical Engineering Professor of Chemistry Professor of Biological Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 77 Massachusetts Avenue, E19-502C Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 phone: (617) 253-3890 email: arupc@mit.edu / research page

Program: Genetics
	Mary Carrington, Ph.D. Director, Basic Sciences NCI, SAIC-Frederick Bldg. 560, Rm 21-89 Miller Drive Frederick, MD 21702 phone: (301) 846-1390 email: carringt@ncifcrf.gov

Program: Basic Immunology
	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 651 Huntington Ave, FXB Bldg Rm 205 Boston, MA 02115 phone: (617) 432-0622 email: lglimche@hsph.harvard.edu / research page

Program: Technology Development
	Darrell J. Irvine, Ph.D. Eugene Bell Career Development Assistant Professor in Tissue Engineering Department of Materials Science & Engineering Division of Bioengineering & Environmental Health 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 8-425 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 phone: 617- 452-4174 email: djirvine@mit.edu / research page

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