Nancy Haigwood

Haigwood earned a doctor of philosophy at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980.[1] She was the graduate mentor to the Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter at Chapel Hill.[2] Her dissertation was titled The organization of repetitive sequences in two cloned mouse beta-globin clusters.[3] Haigwood completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University from 1979 to 1981.[1]

Haigwood worked for 17 years in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. A large portion of this was at the Chiron Corporation (Novartis) and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute. She was a professor of microbiology and pathology from 1997 to 2007 at the University of Washington and a member of the Center for Infectious Disease Research. In 2007, she became the fifth director of the Oregon National Primate Research Center. She is a volunteer board member of the Cascade AIDS Project and an advocate for science education and outreach. Haigwood has researched HIV/AIDS with an emphasis in preventing mother to child transmission and on vaccines since 1986.[1]

Haigwood is a Fellow of the American Society for Microbiology. She won the Cascade AIDS Project 2017 Action Award for her "outstanding volunteer service to this AIDS service organization."[1]

Haigwood contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation in early 2002 after she had suspicions that Bruce Edwards Ivins was behind the 2001 anthrax attacks.[2]

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