Spring 2006 - Global Diseases: Voices from the Vanguard, a lecture series. Presented by the Knight Chair and the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases.

January 10, 2006: Victoria Hale, an award-winning scientist and entrepreneur, who founded the world’s first non-profit pharmaceutical company.

February 28, 2006: Peter Hotez, George Washington University professor who invented the first vaccine to prevent hookworm disease.

March 28, 2006: Don Francis, the iconoclastic hero of Randy Shilts’s seminal book And the Band Played On, has devoted his entire career to preventing diseases including AIDS, smallpox, and polio.

April 18, 2006: Tony James is one of the world’s leading experts on the molecular biology of malaria.

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