USAMRIID researchers to play key roles in prestigious consortium

From left to right (top): Courtney Cohen, Ph.D., a research microbiologist with the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, and Andrew Herbert, Ph.D., branch chief – viral immunology, RIID Virology Division. From left to right (bottom): Catalina Florez, Ph.D., a senior research scientist and Stephanie Monticelli, Ph.D., research scientist, both assigned to RIID. These four scientists were invited to partake in a consortium led by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and will be involved as either co-leads, significant contributors or key personnel on three of four projects to help achieve the consortium’s goal of designing vaccine and therapeutic blueprints for prototype pathogens. (Photo illustration courtesy of USAMRIID)