Nancy Logan Haigwood is an American scientist. She is a professor and a former director of the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Haigwood is an HIV/AIDS researcher and serves as a volunteer board member on the Cascade AIDS Project. She is an advocate of science education and outreach.
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 Haigwood in 2013 | |
| Alma mater | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Ph.D.) |
| Known for | HIV/AIDS research |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Washington Oregon National Primate Research Center |
| Thesis | The organization of repetitive sequences in two cloned mouse beta-globin clusters (1980) |
Education edit
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]
Career edit
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 Global 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]
Awards and honors edit
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]
Personal life edit
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]
References edit
- ^ a b c d "Nancy L. Haigwood, Ph.D. | OHSU People". Oregon Health & Science University. Retrieved February 14, 2019.
- ^ a b Moughty, Sarah (October 10, 2011). "Nancy Haigwood: "I Had a Gut Feeling It Was Bruce"". Frontline. PBS. Retrieved February 14, 2019.
- ^ Haigwood, Nancy Logan (1980). "The organization of repetitive sequences in two cloned mouse beta-globin clusters". The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
External links edit
- Nancy Haigwood publications indexed by Google Scholar
