Steve Dewhurst

Dr. Dewhurst is Professor and Chair of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Rochester (Rochester, NY, USA), and the Vice Dean for Research at the UR School of Medicine and Dentistry.

He is a former member of the NIH Recombinant Advisory Committee (RAC), the past President of a start-up vaccine company (Codevax), and the current director of the UR’s Upstate Stem Cell cGMP Facility – which supports the development of cGMP-compliant cell production methods and the manufacturing of cell-based products for clinical trial. He joined the UR in 1990 and has over 25 years’ experience as a molecular virologist, working principally on HIV and the influenza virus.