Dr. Florian Douam is an Assistant Professor at the Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine in the department of Virology, Immunology, and Microbiology, and a core faculty member at Boston University National Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratories (NEIDL). He completed his PhD studies in Molecular Virology at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in 2013, and his post-doctoral studies in Viral Immunology at Princeton University in 2019. He has been awarded multiple awards, including a NIH K22 transition award, a Peter Paul Career Development Professorship Award, a Rajen Kilachand Fund for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering Award, and a Smith Family Foundation Odyssey Award. His research interests include anti-viral immunity, humanized mouse models, viral acute and post-acute pathogenesis, vaccines, and mouse models of virus infection.