The scientists of COV-IRT bring together their unique domains of expertise to improve the world’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Team members are participating and contributing their talents as individuals, not as representatives of their respective employers across academia, government, industry, and research institutions.

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Academia

  • Baylor College of Medicine
  • Boston University School of Medicine
  • Franklin & Marshall College
  • Fundação Getúlio Vargas (Getúlio Vargas Foundation)
  • Georgetown University
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
    • Dan Cornforth
    • Marvin Whiteley
    • Andrew Conley
    • King Jordan
    • Shashwat Nagar
    • Lavanya Rishishwar
    • Maryam Ghotbaddini
    • Mohammad Javad Feizollahi
  • Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Goethe University Frankfurt)
    • Christian Münch
  • Iowa State University
    • Urminder Singh
    • Eve Wurtele
  • Johns Hopkins Medicine
    • Stephen Baylin
    • Michael Topper
  • Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
    • Ivo Grosse
  • Morehouse School of Medicine
    • Robert Meller
  • Oregon Health and Science University
    • Nicole Vasilevsky
    • Melissa Haendel
  • Politecnico di Milano (Polytechnic University of Milan)
    • Tommaso Fontana
  • Queen’s University Belfast
    • Willian da Silveira
    • Johnatas Dutra Silva
  • Rice University
    • Lydia Kavraki
    • Kathryn Kundrod
    • Rebecca Richards-Kortum
    • Vicky Yao
    • Leo Elworth
    • Huw Ogilvie
    • Nicolae Sapoval
    • Todd J. Treangen
    • Rob Raphael
    • Sherry Gao
    • Luay Nakhleh
    • Kristen Curry
    • Winnie Li
    • Yilei Fu
    • Yunxi Liu
    • Advait Balaji
    • Carla Sipahioglu
    • Michael Nute
  • Royal Holloway University of London
    • Alberto Paccanaro
  • Rush University Medical Center
    • Namni Goel
  • San Jose State University
    • Anupama Kozhiyalam
  • Stanford University
    • Tejaswini Mishra
    • Alokkumar Jha
  • Texas A&M College of Medicine
    • Paul J. Defigueiredo
    • Fen Wang
  • Texas Advanced Computing Center
    • John Fonner
  • Università degli Studi di Milano (University of Milan)
    • Gabriel Tavares
    • Luca Cappelletti
    • Elena Casiraghi
    • Jessica Gliozzo
    • Marco Frasca
    • Giorgio Valentini
    • Dario Malchiodi
    • Gabriella Trucco
  • University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
  • University of California San Diego
    • Kathleen Fisch
    • Sara Brin Rosenthal
  • University of Chicago
  • University of Colorado Boulder
    • Anushree Chatterjee
    • Tiffany J. Callahan
    • Mirela Alistar
    • Dreycey Albin
  • Universidade da Coruña
    • Susana Ladra
  • University of Helsinki
    • Leena Salmela
  • University of Iowa
    • Arman Mikaili
  • University of Lisbon
    • Francisco “Paco” Enguita
  • University of Maryland
    • Donald K. Milton
    • Feyruz Rassool
  • University of Maryland School of Medicine
    • Matt Frieman
  • University of North Carolina
    • Jonathan Cummings Schisler
  • University of Oklahoma
    • Talayeh Razzaghi
  • University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
    • Mingyao Li
  • University of Puerto Rico
    • Vidya Manian
  • University of São Paulo
    • Daniel Tiezzi
  • University of Texas Health Sciences Center
    • Blake Hanson
    • Bernard Fongang
  • The University of Texas Medical Branch
    • Mark Emmett
    • Anna Nia
  • Universidade de Vigo
    • David Posada
  • Universitat de València
    • Fernando Gonzalez Candelas
  • University of Washington
    • Eliah G. Overbey
  • University of Wisconsin
    • Clark Xu
  • Utah State University
    • Som Dutta
  • Weill Cornell Medical College
    • Jonathan Foox
    • Christopher E. Mason
    • Cem Meydan

Government

  • Department of Homeland Security/National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center
    • Adam Bazinet
  • NASA Ames Research Center
    • Afshin Beheshti
    • Jared Broddrick
    • Catharine Conley
    • Sylvain V. Costes
    • Craig Everroad
    • Vanesa Gomez Gonzalez
    • Sharon Grim
    • Mike Lee
    • Paula Maza
    • Eloise Pariset
    • Sigrid S. Reinsch
    • Amanda M. Saravia-Butler
    • Kenny Vassigh
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
    • Patrick Dunn
    • Sonja Best
  • San Antonio Military Health System
    • Giovanni Lorenz
  • Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
    • Irina Maljkovic Berry
    • Simon Pollett

Industry

  • AUM LifeTech, Inc.
    • Veenu Aishwarya
  • DNAnexus
    • Jason Chin
    • Arkarachai Fungtammasan
  • Inscripta, Inc.
    • Ian Fiddes
    • Elizabeth Vitalis
  • IQT Labs
    • JJ Ben-Joseph
    • Benjamin Lee
  •  KBR
    • Bianca Cerqueira
    • Timothy W. Smith
  • Netrias, LLC
    • Mohammed Eslami
  • New England Biolabs
    • Brad Langhorst
  •  RadBioX
    • J. Tyson Mcdonald
  • Real Networks
    • Reza Rassool
  • Signature Science, LLC
    • Krista Ternus
    • Brian Schimmoller
    • Renee Williams
    • Stephen Turner
    • Stephanie Guertin
    • Jim Gibson
  • Springbok LLC
    • Raymond LeClair
  • Stoke Therapeutics, Inc.
    • Erim Lim
  • Zero Day Nutrition
    • Joey Savage

Research Institutes

  • Center of Cancer Systems Biology
    • Philip Hahnfeldt
    • Lynn Hlatkey
  • Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania
    • Batsal Devkota
    • Joseph M. Dybas
    • Mansuck Kim
    • Komal Rathi
    • Erin R. Reichenberger
    • Benjamin J. Stear
    • Aliza Yousey
    • Deanne M. Taylor
    • Larry N. Singh
    • Douglas Wallace
    • Adam C. Resnick
    • Yunkun Zhu
    • Miguel Brown
    • Daniel Miller
    • Allison Heath
    • Todd Kilbaugh
    • Nadir Yehya
    • Ammar Naqvi
    • Hossein Fazelinia
    • Joe Guarnieri
    • Rawan Shraim
    • Laura Schultz
  • Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
    • Bruce Aronow
  • Fondazione IRCCS Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Hospital
    • Andrea Esposito
    • Alessandro Jachetti
  • Forsyth Institute
    • Markus Hardt
  • Houston Methodist
    • John Cooke
    • Sonia Villapol
  • Humanitas Research Hospital in Milan
    • Caterina Giannitto
  • Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia
    • Iñaki Comas Espadas
    • Galo Goig
  • Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
    • Alberto Dávila
  • Institut Pasteur Montevideo
    • Gregorio Iraloa
  • Jackson Laboratories
    • Anne Deslattes Mays
    • Guy Karlebach
    • Peter Robinson
    • Sheng Li
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • Justin Reese
    • Chris Mungall
    • Deepak Unni
  • MD Anderson Cancer Center
    • Waldemar Priebe
  • National Jewish Health
  • New York Genome Center
    • Samantha Fennessey
    • Michael Zody
    • Dayna Oschwald
    • Charles Gagnon
  • Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
    • Shawn Brown
  • Rothamsted Research
    • Joseph Hearnshaw
    • Keywan Hassani-Pak
    • Marco Brandizi
    • Jeremy Parsons
    • Ajit Singh
  • Texas Children’s Microbiome Center
    • Tor Savidge
  • Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children
    • Yared H. Kidane