Nancy Sullivan, Sc.D.

Director, National Emerging Infectious Disease Lab

Office 20 Albany St
Email njsull@bu.edu

Areas of Interest

Publications

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Research Areas

• HIV entry and resistance to neutralizing antibodies
• Filovirus vaccines and immune mechanism
• Filovirus glycoprotein mediated pathogenicity, virus entry and antibody vulnerabilities
• Pandemic Preparedness
• SARS-CoV-2

Honors and Awards

2011 Merit Award for Outstanding Contributions & Efforts in the Support of the NIAID Mission, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, for Research and discovery of filovirus vaccines
2014 Time Person of the Year: Ebola Fighters, Time Magazine, for Research on Ebola virus vaccines
2015 NIH Director’s Award , National Institutes of Health, for Novel and groundbreaking Ebola vaccines
2015 The Politico Top 50 , Politico Magazine, for Research on Ebola vaccines
2016 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award, Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC), Unique and expedited agreements needed for Ebola vaccine development.
2017 Honorary Doctorate, Merrimack College, Career Achievements
2018 Merit Award for Outstanding Contributions & Efforts in the Support of the NIAID Mission, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Vaccine Research Center – Ebola Rapid Response Team
2018 Philip S. Chen Distinguished Lecture on Innovation and Technology Transfer, Office of Technology Transfer, National Institutes of Health, for Novel technology development
2019 NIH Director’s Award, National Institutes of Health, for Ebola outbreak response and therapeutics development
2019 Merit Award for Outstanding Contributions & Efforts in the Support of the NIAID Mission, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, for Development of effective therapeutics for treatment of Ebola virus disease
2019 Breakthrough of the Year (top ten nominated), Science Magazine, for Treatment of Ebola virus disease
2020 Merit Award for Outstanding Contributions & Efforts in the Support of the NIAID Mission, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, for COVID-19 Outbreak Response Team
2020 Special Act Award , National Institutes of Health, for U.S. COVID-19 response (Operation Warp Speed)
2020 People’s Choice Award (Finalist), Service to America Medals, for Outstanding research on Ebola vaccines and therapeutics
2021 NIH Director’s Award, National Institutes of Health, for Outstanding efforts in the pursuit of effective therapeutics to treat COVID-19
2021 NIH Director’s Award, National Institutes of Health, for Outstanding efforts in the pursuit of efficacious vaccines to prevent COVID-19
2021 NIH Director’s Award, National Institutes of Health, for Extraordinary dedication and teamwork to support the Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines partnership.
2022 NIH Director’s Award, National Institutes of Health, for Omicron response team Organization

Additional Affiliations

Professor, Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Professor, Biology

Department or Division: Biomedical Engineering

Affiliation: Primary & Affiliated Faculty

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