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Jack Whitescarver, Ph.D.
2000–2015
Jack Whitescarver, Ph.D. became the Deputy Director of new Office of AIDS Research (OAR) at the NIH in 1988. He served first as Acting Director, and later as permanent Director of the OAR from October 2000 until June 2015. Dr. Whitescarver received his doctorate in medical microbiology in 1974 from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He pursued his post-doctoral research at the Harvard School of Public Health, focusing on immunopathogenesis of rickettsia infection. In his position as a Research Associate at the Harvard School of Public Health and Medical School his research interests included obligate intracellular parasites. In 1977, Dr. Whitescarver completed a year in the Grants Associates Program at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and became the Special Assistant to the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). It was during this tenure that Dr. Whitescarver first reported to NIAID on the possibility of the emergence of a new infectious disease, now known as AIDS, and he helped develop the initial federal response for research on AIDS. In July 2010, Dr. Whitescarver was the recipient of the first International AIDS Society (IAS) Presidential Award for his “outstanding commitment to the global fight against HIV and his pioneering work in the field.”
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