Dr. Harry Greenberg is currently the Associate Dean for Research and joseph D. Grant Professor of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is also the Co-Director of Spectrum, the Stanford Clinical and Translational Science Center. His research career has focused on viruses that infect the gastrointestinal tract, lungs and liver with a special focus on rotaviruses, viral pathogenesis, viral immunity and vaccines. He has published over 500 primary research articles, reviews, and book chapters and was an inventor of the first licensed rotavirus vaccine. He was also part of the teams that developed the Indian ROTAVAC vaccine now licensed and widely used in India. His research has also involved studies of Noroviruses, Hepatitis B and C Viruses and Influenza. Dr. Greenberg received his MD from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, completed residency training in internal medicine at Bellevue Hospital in NYC and a fellowship in gastroenterology at Stanford University. He served as a medical officer and tenure scientist in the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health for nine years before joining the Stanford faculty in 1983. Dr. Greenberg served as Chief of the Stanford Division of Gastroenterology, as Associate Chief of Staff for Research at the Palo Alto VA Hospital, and as Acting Chair of the Department of Medicine at Stanford on two occasions. Dr. Greenberg has been elected to several scholarly societies including the ASCI and AAAS. He is a past president of the American Society of Virology, has served as the chair of the FDA Advisory Committee on Vaccines and Related Biologics, and as the Chair of the Medical Sciences Section of the AAAS. He was the Chief Scientific Officer at Aviron (later Medimmune Vaccines) during a 2-year leave of absence from Stanford. He is currently a member of the NIH, NIAID Advisory Council.