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Today the World Health Organization released the names of the 22 scientists invited to participate in the first technical consultation on H5N1 research currently being held in Geneva.
Reading like a WHO’s Who of global influenza specialists, this august group of scientists will meet behind closed doors over the next two days to discuss the fate of two research papers by Fouchier and Kawaoka that detail how they created a transmissible (in ferrets) strain of H5N1 in the lab.
Technical consultation on H5N1 research issues
WHO Headquarters, Geneva
16-17 February 2012List of participants
Professor Tjandra Y. Aditama
Director-General of Disease Control and Environmental Health, Ministry of Health
IndonesiaDr Philip Campbell
Editor-in-Chief Nature
United KingdomDr Nancy Cox
Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Control of Influenza, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
United States of AmericaDr Anthony Fauci
Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
United States of AmericaProfessor Ron Fouchier
Institute of Virology, Erasmus Medical Center
NetherlandsProfessor Didier Houssin
President, French Evaluation Agency for Research and Higher Education (AERES)
FranceDr Barbara Jasny
Deputy Editor for Commentary, Science/AAAS
United States of AmericaDr Yoshihiro Kawaoka
Influenza Research Institute, University of Wisconsin
United States of AmericaDr Paul Keim
Acting Chair, National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), Division Director, Pathogen Genomics, Northern Arizona University
United States of AmericaProfessor Anne Kelso
Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza
AustraliaDr Willem Luytjes
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)
The NetherlandsDr Le Thi Quynh Mai
Head of Virology Department, National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE)
Viet NamDr John McCauley
Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, National Institute for Medical Research
United KingdomProfessor A.D.M.E. Osterhaus
Head, Institute of Virology, Erasmus Medical Center
NetherlandsDr Malik Peiris
WHO H5 Reference Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of ChinaDr Vivi Setiawaty
Head of Virology, National Institute of Health Research and Development (NIHRD)
IndonesiaDr Yuelong Shu
Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
ChinaProfessor Jerome Singh
Head of Ethics and Health Law, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine
South AfricaDr Masato Tashiro
Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, National Institute of Infectious Diseases
JapanDr Trihono
Director General, National Institute of Health Research and Development (NIHRD)
IndonesiaDr Philip Van Dalen
Cluster Coordinator, Infectious Diseases, Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
NetherlandsDr Richard Webby (not present 16 February 2012)
Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Studies on the Ecology of Influenza in Animals, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
United States of America
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