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Harvey Rubin
Dr. Rubin received his PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974
and his MD from Columbia University in 1976. He was a House Officer in Medicine at The
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston and did his fellowship in infectious diseases at Harvard
and the Brigham. He is currently Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania with
secondary appointments in the Departments of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Computer and
Information Sciences. His research on the basic biology of tuberculosis and other bacteria and
the mathematical modeling of complex biological systems has been funded by the NIH, NSF,
DARPA, the Global Alliance for TB Drug Discovery and DoD. He has published over 90 papers in
peer-reviewed journals as well as numerous scientific reviews and book chapters.
Dr. Rubin served on a number of national and international scientific review panels including
those for the NIH, NSF, NASA Intelligent Systems Program, DARPA, and The Medical Research
Council, South Africa. He was a member of the United States National Science Advisory
Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) and the Department of Defense/National Academy of Sciences
Biological Cooperative Threat Reduction Program. He is the Chair, Scientific Advisory Board,
Incentives for Global Health
Dr Rubin is the Director of Penn’s Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis and Response (ISTAR).
ISTAR is dedicated to identifying, analyzing and solving policy, scientific and technical issues
that contribute to regional, national and international security.
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