Biography
Dr. John Moore is a tenured Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. He received his B.A., M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from Cambridge University, UK. From 1982 to 1992, he worked there, at the University of Glasgow, and the Chester Beatty Laboratories, London. He moved to the USA in 1992, joining the Medical College in 2000.
He was an Elizabeth Glaser Scientist of the Pediatric AIDS Foundation and has held an Unrestricted Grant for Infectious Disease Research from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation. He holds a Merit Award from NIAID. He is an Editorial Board member for several journals, and has served on study sections and committees for NIH and charities.
Dr. Moore directs projects on HIV-1 entry into cells and how to inhibit it with specific drug candidates and antibodies, including developing a topical microbicide based on entry inhibitors; designing envelope glycoprotein antigens for neutralizing antibody induction; and understanding HIV-1 resistance under selection by CCR5 inhibitors.
