Stephenson Group

Kathryn Stephenson, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a physician-scientist at the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research and the Division of Infectious Diseases at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She is also an Associate Member of the Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT and Harvard and the Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness. 

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Vaccines and Immunotherapies to Improve Global Health

Our NIH-funded independent research program focuses on early phase clinical development of novel biomedical interventions for the prevention and treatment of HIV and emerging infectious diseases, such as Zika virus and SARS-CoV-2. Our translational clinical research has assisted in the advancement of multiple vaccine candidates, monoclonal antibodies and antivirals into efficacy trials and FDA approval. Our goal is to advance global health through the discovery of safe, effective and accessible tools to prevent and treat infectious diseases.  

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