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Faculty Fellow
Harvey Rubin
Faculty Fellow
Harvey Rubin
Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
Attending Physician, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Director, Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis And Response (ISTAR), University of Pennsylvania
Professor of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Attending Physician, Good Shepherd Penn Partners
Organization(s)
Perelman School of Medicine
Harvey Rubin is Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The NIH, NSF, DARPA, the Global Alliance for TB Drug Discovery, and the Gates Foundation have funded his basic biochemical and genetic research in infectious diseases, resulting in more than 100 peer-reviewed papers. He served on national and international scientific review panels including the NIH, NSF, NASA Intelligent Systems Program, DARPA, and The Medical Research Council, South Africa. He was a member of the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity and the Dept. of Defense/National Academy of Sciences Biological Cooperative Threat Reduction Program. Dr. Rubin is the founder of Energize the Chain, a non-profit organization, and GAVI INFUSE, a funded partner that ensures the delivery of vaccines to people in the most remote regions of the world by utilizing power and connectivity available at cell tower sites to power the refrigeration systems that are necessary to keep vaccines at the proper temperature.
