Brian B. Gowen

Dr.Gowen received his Ph.D. degree in biomedical science from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in 2000, with emphasis in microbiology and immunology. His undergraduate work in microbiology was done at Colorado State University. He trained as a post doctoral fellow at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories campus of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, in Hamilton, Montana, from 2000-2004, where he studied host-pathogen interactions and innate immunity and host defense. He joined the Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences and the Institute for Antiviral Research in January of 2004. Dr.Gowen specializes in pre-clinical development of antiviral therapies for the treatment of arenaviral and bunyaviral hemorrhagic fever agents, immunotherapeutics, innate immunity to viral pathogens, and animal models of viral hemorrhagic fevers. He has 33 peer-reviewed publications, is the inventor on one patent, and serves on the editorial boards for the journals Antiviral Research and Antiviral Chemistry and Chemotherapy. Dr. Gowen was awarded the 2011 William Prusoff Young Investigator Lecture Award by the International Society for Antiviral Research.