Dan Barouch, MD, PhD

William Bosworth Castle Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School

Dan Barouch received his PhD in immunology from Oxford University and his MD from Harvard Medical School. He is currently the William Bosworth Castle Professor of Medicine and a professor of immunology at Harvard Medical School, director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a member of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard, and part of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery. He studies the immunology and pathogenesis of viral infections and develops novel vaccine and treatment strategies. His group has developed vaccine candidates for multiple pathogens of global significance, including HIV, Zika virus, tuberculosis, and SARS-CoV-2. His recent work contributed to the development of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, which is now being rolled out throughout the world. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2020.