Bruce D. Walker
Bruce D Walker is an American physician and scientist.Biography
An infectious disease specialist and researcher, Walker is the director of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard. The institute is a collaborative venture including Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, with the initial goal of contributing to the development of an effective HIV vaccine. He is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, an adjunct faculty member at Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, and a founding scientist at the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV.
Walker was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2004. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2009.
