Center for Research on Influenza Pathogenesis and Transmission (CRIPT)

The CRIPT Team

The Center for Research on Influenza Pathogenesis and Transmission (CRIPT) is headed by the principal investigator Dr. Adolfo García-Sastre, and managed by Dr. Marlene Espinoza-Moraga and Mr. Ryan Camping. The CRIPT team is comprised of leading influenza researchers from around the world including collaborating investigators from other institutions.

CRIPT Investigators and Staff

The CRIPT network and research structures span all continents, allowing worldwide sampling and isolation of human and animal influenza and SARS-CoV-2 viruses

Principal Investigator:

Adolfo García-Sastre, PhD  

Scientific Program Manager:

Marlene Espinoza-Moraga, PhD

Program Coordinator:

Ryan Camping

Investigators:

Collaborating Investigators

Dan Barouch
Director, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Michael Diamond
Professor, Washington University, St. Louis

Eric Bortz, PhD
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska Anchorage

Ying Chen, PhD
Associate Professor, Guangxi University

Ali Ellebedy, PhD
Professor, Washington University School of Medicine

Ron Fouchier, PhD
Professor, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 

Matthew Frieman
Associate Professor, University of Maryland

Bart Haagmans
Associate Professor, Erasmus Medical Center

A.M. (Xander) de Haan
Associate Professor, Utrecht University

Sander Herfst
Assistant Professor, Erasmus Medical Center

David Ho
Professor, Columbia University

Yoshihiro Kawaoka, DVM, PhD
Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Janine Kimpel
Senior Researcher, Medical University of Innsbruck

Luis Martinez-Sobrido
Professor, Texas Biomedical Research Institute

Rafael Medina, PhD
Associate Professor, Emory University 

Donald Milton, MD, DrPH
Professor, University of Maryland, College Park

Mark Mulligan, MD
Director, NYU Langone Vaccine Center; Director, Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology; Thomas S. Murphy, Sr. Professor of Medicine; Professor of Microbiology

Gabriele Neumann
Research Professor and Distinguished Scientist, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Martha Nelson, PhD 
Staff Scientist, Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies
National Institutes of Health

Daniel Perez, PhD
Professor, University of Georgia  

Octavio Ramilo, MD
Chair, Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Victor Manuel Neira Ramirez
Assistant Professor, University of Chile

Gustavo Real-Soldevilla, PhD
Researcher at National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research (INIA), Madrid, Spain

Mathilde Richard
Assistant Professor, Erasmus Medical Center

Jonathan Runstadler, DVM, PhD
Professor, Tufts University 

Mark Sangster
Research Professor, University of Rochester

Megan Shaw
University of the Western Cape

Derek Smith, PhD
Professor of Infectious Disease Informatics, University of Cambridge 

David Suarez, DVM, PhD
Research Leader, Exotic and Emerging Avian Viral Diseases Research Unit
United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service

David Topham
Professor, University of Rochester

Guojun Wang
Professor, Inner Mongolia University

Patrick C. Wilson, PhD
Professor, Weill Cornell Medical College