Duke University Graduate Student Symposium 2009

Keynote Speaker

Barton F. Haynes, M.D.
Frederic M. Hanes Professor of Medicine and Immunology
Director of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute
and the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI)
Duke University Medical Center

Barton Ford Haynes is a U.S. physician and immunologist and is internationally recognized for work in T-cell immunology, retrovirology and HIV vaccine development. Haynes is a Frederic M. Hanes Professor of Medicine and Immunology at Duke University Medical Center. He is the Director of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute and the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 2005. He leads the Haynes Vaccine Discovery Consortia as part of the Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD) funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2006.

Haynes received his bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee in 1969 and his M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine in 1973. He completed his internship and residency at Duke University Medical Center in 1975. After conducting research for five years at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1975 to 1980, Haynes returned to Duke as a member of the faculty in the Department of Medicine in 1980. He served as Chief of the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Clinical Immunology from 1987-1995, and as Chair of the Department of Medicine from 1995-2002 at Duke University Medical Center. Haynes established the Duke Human Vaccine Institute in 1990 to support interdisciplinary efforts across Duke to develop vaccines and therapeutics for HIV and other emerging infections.

Haynes served as a member of the NIAID Advisory Council, Chairman of the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine Roundtable for Development for Drugs and Vaccines against AIDS, and currently is Chair of the NIAID AIDS Vaccine Research Working Group that advises the National Institutes of Health (NIH) regarding the national HIV vaccine effort. Haynes served on the NIAID Blue Ribbon Committees on Bioterrorism and Emerging Infections held in February and October 2002. He is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, a member of the Association of American Physicians, a member of the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Source: Duke University