| Annie De Groot, M.D. |
| Director,
TB/HIV Research Lab, Brown University (Kilguss Building, WIH) Staff Physician RI TB Clinic and York Correctional Institution HIV Clinic Founder and Scientific Advisor, GAIA Vaccine Foundation Founder and CEO, EpiVax, Inc. Mother, Ami (9) and Zeno (13) CIRICULUM VITAE (CLICK HERE) |
| Anne De Groot is assistant professor of Medicine at Brown University and member of the International Health Institute. Dr. De Groot earned degrees from Smith College (BA) and the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago (MD). Dr. De Groot is a board certified Infectious Disease specialist, and has had additional training in vaccine research at the National Institute of Health and the New England Medical Center. |
| Dr. De Groot directs the TB/HIV Research Lab, where she and her laboratory associates are constructing epitope-driven vaccines for TB (tuberculosis), HIV (AIDS), HPV (Cervical Cancer) and HCV (Hepatitis C). She and her colleagues have emphasized the development of vaccines that are both globally relevant and affordable to the persons at greatest risk of disease. To this end, she recently founded the GAIA Vaccine Foundation, which supports the development and distribution of a global AIDS vaccine. She was awarded a $2.7 Million research grant for her AIDS vaccine effort in May 2002 and is also the recipient of $900,000 for her TB vaccine from the Gates Foundation (through the Sequella Global TB Foundation). |
| Dr. De Groot is also CEO of EpiVax, Inc., a small biotech firm located on the East Side of Providence. She founded the company in order to make bioinformatics tools developed in her laboratory at Brown University available to a wider audience of academic and for-profit vaccine developers. |
| Her clinical work is devoted to providing TB care to patients at the Rhode Island state TB clinic and to women prisoners in Connecticut (under the Yale HIV in Prison Program). She also volunteers at the Rhode Island Free Clinic and teaches science in an afterschool club for 4th and 5th grade children, one day a week, during the school year. |
| More information on her projects can be found at the following websites: |
| http://www.Brown.edu/Research/TB-HIV_Lab
http://www.Brown.edu/Research/Vaccine_Center http://www.HIVcorrections.org http://www.EpiVax.com http://www.GAIAvaccine.org |