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| New Jersey Medical School |
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| Medicine |
| Year Inducted |
Phone |
E-Mail |
| 2002 |
973-972-3759 |
connell@umdnj.edu |
| Biography |
| Nancy Connell is Professor and Vice-Chair for Research in the Department of Medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), New Jersey Medical School. A Harvard University Ph.D. in Microbiology, Dr. Connell's major research focus is the interaction between M. tuberculosis and the macrophage. She is Director of the Biosafety Level Three Facility of UMDNJ's Center for the Study of Emerging and Re-Emerging Pathogens and chairs the Recombinant DNA Subcommittee of the University's Institutional Biosafety Committee. She is also the current Chair of the CSR Study Section (BM-1) at NIH which reviews bacterial pathogenesis submissions to NIAID. Dr. Connell's involvement in biological weapons control began in 1984, when she was Chair of the Committee on the Military Use of Biological Research, a subcommittee of the Council for Responsible Genetics, based in Cambridge, MA. Her interest in biological weapons policy issues continues to this day: she is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Advances in Technology and the Prevention of their Application to Next Generation Biowarfare Agents. Finally, Dr. Connell is the Director of the UMDNJ Center for Biodefense, established in 1999, which is the recipient of $ 12.5 million in funding (2000-2005) for research into detection and diagnosis of biowarfare agents and in development of biodefense preparedness training programs. |
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