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2025 Virology Retreat

Welcome

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What an exciting time to study virology! Here at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and affiliated hospitals, our virology community is at the forefront of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: from advancing vaccine candidates for human clinical trials and pioneering diagnostic and surveillance efforts to conducting basic research in SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis. This work continues our community’s long history of virology research. We have made, and continue to make, seminal contributions to basic research elucidating new structures of viruses, viral glycoproteins, and virus-encoded enzymes, characterizing viral trafficking within cells, and mechanisms that control cell growth. We are among the world leaders in the design and testing of HIV, genital herpes, and influenza vaccines. Learn more about our Program...

Virology Spotlight

Dr. Hao Wu, PhD

Halfway through her medical training at Beijing, China, Dr. Hao Wu discovered her love for scientific research. Now, the Wu lab at Harvard Medical School focuses on innate immunology, where they use structural biology as a tool to understand molecular and...

Alex Liu

Hao Wu

Dr. Sadie Antine, PhD

Just over a year ago, Sadie (now Dr. Antine!) was finishing her PhD in Dr. Philip Kranzusch’s lab, where a cryo-EM ‘blob’ she once barely knew how to interpret grew into the foundation of her thesis project. Today, she’s traded bacteria for cancer biology...

Ankita Chopde

Sadie Antine