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Sharon Achilles
Dr. Sharon Achilles leads the foundation’s efforts in drug discovery and innovative approaches to improving reproductive and sexual health, with a focus on women in low-resource settings.
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David Blazes
Dr. David Blazes leads a team that supports advancements in burden-of-disease modeling, geospatial mapping, next-generation genetic sequencing of pathogens with epidemic potential, and wastewater surveillance of enteric and diarrheal diseases.
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Guillaume Chabot-Couture
Guillaume Chabot-Couture leads research on uses of artificial intelligence, large language models, and frontier modeling technologies for global health.
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Kedest Tesfagiorgis
Kedest Tesfagiorgis leads the Global Partnerships and Grand Challenges team within the foundation’s Discovery & Translational Sciences program.
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Peter Ehrenkranz
Dr. Peter Ehrenkranz focuses on improving access to high-quality HIV care that better serves the needs of people living with HIV and reduces unnecessary burdens on the health system.
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Johannes Dasenbrock
Johannes Dasenbrock leads a team that works to advance innovative therapeutics for underserved populations.
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Thea Norman
Thea Norman created and leads the Integrated Development team’s Design, Analyze, Communicate (DAC) program, which works to address the significant problem of uninformative clinical research that does not help improve…
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Dan Hartman
Dr. Dan Hartman leads a team that provides technical expertise to the foundation’s disease-focused teams on managing product development pipelines, from late discovery through registration.
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Gagandeep Kang
Gagandeep “Cherry” Kang is a physician-scientist who leads the foundation’s efforts to address enteric and diarrheal diseases, including by supporting work on diagnostics, genomics, epidemiology, and disease transmission modeling.
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Karen Makar
Karen Makar is a Ph.D. immunologist and molecular epidemiologist who leads the Discovery & Translational Sciences team’s Global Health Discovery Collaboratory.