Richard Webby

Dr Richard Webby is a Member of the Department of Infectious diseases at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Studies on the Ecology of Influenza in Animals. He has a basic research program, funded by ALSAC, the fundraising arm of St Jude, and the US National Institutes of Health, that focuses on influenza viruses at the human-animal interface. His expertise is in influenza virology and he has substantial experience in in vivo and in vitro models of influenza virus replication, pathogenicity, and transmission.