Dr. Angela Branche is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology at the University of Pennsylvania and her Doctorate in Medicine at the American University of the Caribbean. She completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Lutheran Medical Center (NYU-Langone Hospital-Brooklyn) in Brooklyn, NY, and an infectious disease fellowship at the University of Rochester. Her focus in research involves the use of viral molecular and immunological diagnostic assays to explore the pathogenesis and host response to acute viral respiratory illnesses in adults. She is currently a Co-Principal Investigator for the UR Vaccine Treatment and Evaluation Unit (UR VTEU), one of ten NIH-funded network sites in the US. Her current research activities explore clinical disease, pathogenesis, development of therapeutics, and vaccine biology related to infection with viral and bacterial respiratory pathogens. She remains actively involved in the NIH and University of Rochester research response to COVID-19, and is helping conduct natural history, therapeutic, and vaccine studies. She is a member of the Infectious Disease Society of America and the NIH IDCRC Emerging Infections Expert Working Group. She has published several peer-reviewed articles, reviews, and book chapters related to respiratory viral pathogens in adults.