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Dr. Hellen Amuguni is a veterinarian with doctoral training in Infectious Diseases. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Infectious Disease and Global Health at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. Her doctoral dissertation was conducted under the supervision of Professor Saul Tzipori, a renowned scientist in the field of infectious diseases and vaccine research where she investigated sublingual immunization as an alternative delivery route for vaccines. The project, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Grand Challenges for Global Health initiative, developed an effective heat stable non-injectable tetanus vaccine that does not require a cold chain and can be used in developing countries.
She has many years of experience working as a Veterinarian and Gender specialist among pastoralist communities in the horn of Africa, developing gender programs, conducting gender assessment studies among livestock projects in Kenya, Ethiopia, Southern Sudan and Somalia. She also facilitates in the International Veterinary Medicine forums and Problem Based Learning courses and is the Co-Director of the Human Dimensions of Conservation Medicine course for graduate students in the masters in Conservation Medicine program.
Dr. Amuguni is the technical advisor for the USAID RESPOND project Africa. She coordinates projects across six African countries including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Democratic Republic of Congo working with 14 institutions of public health and veterinary medicine to build the capacity of partner African countries using a One Health approach to investigate, respond to, and counter existing and future emerging infectious disease outbreaks.

 
Brenda Anne Wilson is a Professor of microbiology in the School of Molecular & Cellular Biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She also is the Inaugural Professor of Biomedical and Translational Sciences in the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, an adjunct professor of pathobiology in the College of Veterinary Medicine; and the Sandia Senior Faculty Fellow in the university's Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation. 
Wilson is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and a member of the AAM Selection Committee, and an American Society for Microbiology Distinguished Lecturer.
She was a DAAD graduate exchange Fellow in biochemistry at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Germany. While earning her PhD at Johns Hopkins University, she was an AAUW doctoral fellow and studied antibiotic biosynthesis. She then undertook her NIH postdoctoral fellowship training in microbiology at Harvard Medical School, where she began her studies on bacterial protein toxins. Her first tenured faculty appointment was in biochemistry at Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio.
As inaugural leader of the Host-Microbe Systems Theme of the Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois for 10 years, Wilson brought together faculty and scientists from multiple disciplines across campus, including microbiology, anthropology, animal sciences, engineering, and veterinary pathobiology to forge new areas of microbiome research. She served for 10 years on the executive committee of the Great Lakes Regional Center for Excellence in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases. As co-director of the University of Illinois Center for Zoonoses Research, she has promoted the One-Health Initiative and training of DVM students in research through summer training experiences. For nearly 20 years she has served as Biosecurity Leader of the Executive Committee of the University of Illinois Program in Arms Control, Domestic and International Security, where she has engaged events promoting scientific literacy and bridging the gap between scientists and educators, policy makers, government officials, and the public.
Wilson is currently president of the Champaign-Urbana Branch of the American Association for University Women, where she helps organize and convene community outreach events aimed at advancing equity and higher education opportunities for women and girls, particularly in STEM areas. As director for undergraduate education in the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, she helps oversee the delivery of all academic, advising, and curricular aspects of the BS in MCB, BS in Biochemistry, BS in Neuroscience, and the forthcoming BS in MCB + Data Science undergraduate programs and the MS in MCB graduate programs. As the Sandia Senior Faculty Fellow in the Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation, she fosters, engages, and sustains research collaborations in STEM disciplines, including building workforce pipelines between scientists at the University of Illinois and the U.S. Department of Energy's national labs.
Research interests
Wilson’s research focuses on the host-microbe interface, bacterial pathogenesis and bacterial protein toxins, development of anti-toxin and toxin-based therapeutic biologics, comparative and functional genomic technologies and applications involving microbiomes and their roles in health and disease, climate change impacts on microbiomes, health, and disease transmission, and development of technologies and applications for detection and risk assessment of Dual Use Research of Concern (DURC) objects, publications, and activities. She has published over 150 scientific articles, chapters, and books, including the highly acclaimed textbook Bacterial Pathogenesis: A Molecular Approach (4th Edition, 2019, ASM Press/John Wiley) and the recent Revenge of the Microbes: How Bacterial Resistance is Undermining the Antibiotic Miracle (2nd Edition, 2023, ASM Press/John Wiley).
Education
BA (Biochemistry and German), Barnard College/Columbia University, 1981
Biochemistry Diplomarbeit (Post-baccalaureate Program), Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany, 1981-1982
M.S./Ph.D. (Chemistry), Johns Hopkins University, 1989
Postdoctoral (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), Harvard Medical School, 1989-1993
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