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Thomas P. Monath | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard |
| Occupation(s) | Physician, scientist |
| Known for | Managing partner and chief scientific officer of Crozet BioPharma LLC |
Thomas P. Monath is a physician, virologist and vaccine developer. He has been the chief scientific officer of several pharmaceutical companies, and has held leadership positions in US Government agencies.[1][2]
Earlfy life and education
[edit]Monath received his undergraduate and M.D. degrees from Harvard and trained in internal medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston. From 1973 to 1988, Monath was the director of the Division of Vector-Borne Viral Diseases, Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Fort Collins, Colorado, and from 1989 to 1992 chief of the Virology Division, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID).[3][4]
Awards and achievements
[edit]In 1992 Monath retired from the US Army after serving 24 years in the uniformed services. He is on the editorial board of 5 scientific journals. Monath has received the Nathanial A. Young Award in 1984, the Richard M. Taylor Award in 1996, and the Walter Reed Medal in 2002 from the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, where he was the president from 2004 to 2005.[5][6] From 1998 to 2000, Monath was senior science advisor to the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Monath has published 435 papers and 6 books on the immunology, epidemiology and pathogenesis of arboviruses and also on vaccine development and is an inventor on 31 patents. A leader in the “One Health” movement, Monath served on the American Veterinary Medical Association's “One Health” Task Force and also subsequently on the USA One Health Commission. He also served on the National Vaccines Advisory Committee, and on multiple World Health Organization expert committees.[7][8]
From 1992 to 2006, Monath was chief scientific officer and a director of Acambis, a public biotechnology company, From 2006 to 2014 Monath was chief medical officer of biotechnology companies (Hookipa Pharma, now a NASDAQ company), Juvaris Inc, Xcellerex Inc. In 2014 he joined NewLink Genetics’ subsidiary BioProtection Inc., where he was chief scientific and chief operating office . In 2017 Monath formed Crozet BioPharma, where he leads a team working on vaccines. He is on the board of Juvaris Inc., US Biologics Inc, and Sentinext Plc and on the scientific advisory board of SutroVax Inc. and GeoVax Inc.[9][10][11]
References
[edit]- ^ "Thomas P Monath". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
- ^ "GeoVax, Inc. – GeoVax, Inc". www.geovax.com. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
- ^ "Thomas p monath". Crunchbase. 2011-11-25.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "NewLink Genetics Appoints Thomas P. Monath, M.D. to the Position of Chief Scientific and Chief Operations Officer of BioProtection Systems Corporation, Its Infectious Disease Division". NewLink Genetics Corporation. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
- ^ "Dr. Thomas Monath, MD – Harvard, MA | Infectious Disease on Doximity". Doximity. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
- ^ "Thomas P. Monath". Baylor College of Medicine. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
- ^ Monath, Thomas P. (2005). "Interview with Thomas P. Monath, M.D. Interview by Vicki Glaser". Vector Borne and Zoonotic Diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.). 5 (3): 300–304. doi:10.1089/vbz.2005.5.300. ISSN 1530-3667. PMID 16187902.
- ^ "WHO | Members of, and Advisers to, the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee on Yellow Fever". WHO. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
- ^ "GeoVax, Inc. – GeoVax, Inc". www.geovax.com. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
- ^ Glaser, Vicki (2005-09-01). "Interview with Thomas P. Monath, M.D.". Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 5 (3): 300–4. doi:10.1089/vbz.2005.5.300. ISSN 1530-3667. PMID 16187902.
- ^ Enserink, Martin (2003-08-15). "Riding the Biodefense Wave". Science. 301 (5635): 912–913. doi:10.1126/science.301.5635.912. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 12920279. S2CID 70539622.
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