Vanessa M. Hirsch

Vanessa M. Hirsch is a Canadian-American veterinary pathologist and scientist. She is a senior investigator and chief of the nonhuman primate virology section at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Hirsch researches AIDS pathogenesis, the evolution and origins of primate lentiviruses, and HIV vaccine development.

Vanessa M. Hirsch
Alma materUniversity of Saskatchewan (DVM)
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (DSc)
Scientific career
FieldsAIDS pathogenesis, HIV vaccine development
InstitutionsGeorgetown University
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
ThesisStructure of the simian immunodeficiency virus and its relationship to human immunodeficiency viruses (1987)

Education

Hirsch received a D.V.M. from the University of Saskatchewan in 1977 where she did a residency in pathology. She became board certified by the American College of Veterinary Pathologists in 1984. Hirsch earned her D.Sc. degree from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 1988.[1][2] Her dissertation was titled Structure of the simian immune immunodeficiency virus and its relationship to human immunodeficiency viruses.[3]

Career and research

Hirsch was a research assistant professor at Georgetown University until 1992, when she joined the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, transferring to the Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology in 1999 and becoming tenured in 2002. She is a senior investigator and chief of the nonhuman primate virology section. Hirsch researches AIDS pathogenesis, the evolution and origins of primate lentiviruses, and HIV vaccine development.[1][2]

References
  1. "Principal Investigators". NIH Intramural Research Program. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  2. "Vanessa M. Hirsch, D.V.M., D.Sc. | NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases". www.niaid.nih.gov. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  3. Hirsch, Vanessa M (1987). Structure of the simian immune immunodeficiency virus and its relationship to human immunodeficiency viruses (Thesis). OCLC 230847002.
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