Dr. Topham is the Vice Provost and Executive Director of The Health Sciences Center for Computational Innovation, a Marie Curran Wilson and Joseph Chamberlain Wilson Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology at the University of Rochester Medical Center. He also serves as Director of the New York Influenza Center of Excellence, a robust, collaborative program for basic and translational investigation of influenza virology, pathogenesis, immunology, and vaccines, and one of the six national Centers of Excellence in Influenza Research and Surveillance supported by the National Institutes of Health.