Peter Hotez, MD, PhD

President

Dr. Peter Hotez is President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute and will lead the new Sabin vaccine development program at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) beginning in August 2011. He also will serve as founding dean of a new School of Tropical Medicine at BCM, serve as chief of a new Section of Tropical Diseases in the BCM Department of Pediatrics and hold the Texas Children’s Hospital Endowed Chair in Tropical Pediatrics. His academic research focuses on vaccine development for a wide range of neglected tropical diseases around the globe.

Dr. Hotez created the Sabin vaccine development program, which includes the Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative and the Schistosomiasis Vaccine Initiative, a unique product development partnership funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and others. In addition, Dr. Hotez was instrumental in creating the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, an innovative partnership dedicated to controlling the spread of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in developing nations.

Dr. Hotez graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University in1980 with a degree in Molecular Biophysics, and obtained both his M.D. and Ph.D. from the medical scientist-training program at Weill Cornell Medical College and The Rockefeller University in New York.

Dr. Hotez serves as President of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. He has served in membership or leadership roles with a multitude of professional organizations, including as a current member of the NIH Council of Councils Committee. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.