Founder & Scientific Advisor of Vivaldi Biosciences Inc. Professor, Microbiology and Medicine; Director, Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
An expert in molecular biology of influenza and other negative-strand RNA viruses, identified role of influenza NS1, co-developed reverse genetics techniques and live attenuated influenza viruses with modifications of NS1, and authored over 480 papers and reviews.