Panel - Infectious Disease
Channel: paloaltoinstitute
Date: 2012-06-15

Andrew F. Read, Ph.D. 
Pennsylvania State University 

Andrew F. Read is Alumni Professor in the Biological Sciences and Professor of Entomology at Pennsylvania State University and director of PSU's Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics. His research focuses on the ecology and evolution of infectious disease research, particularly evolution driven by drugs, vaccines and insecticides that undermines human and animal well being.

Nina Kjellson 
Interwest, General Partner

Nina Kjellson has been part of InterWest's life sciences team since 2002, focusing primarily on investments in biopharmaceuticals. Kjellson led InterWest's investment in APT Pharmaceuticals where she is anobserver on the board and co-sponsored InterWest's observe. She also leads InterWest's initiative in healthcare IT and is a director of the Consumer Medicine Summit.


James Holland Jones, Ph.D., 
Woods Institute for the Environment 
 
An Associate Professor of Anthropology and a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, James Holland Jones is a biological anthropologist with interests in biodemography, life history theory, and the human ecology of infectious disease. His work is broadly comparative and he uses studies of nonhuman primate life histories and infectious disease to provide a broad perspective on these phenomena in humans.