Brian Gowen, Ph.D.

Field: Animal Science
Areas of Focus: Virology

Expertise

• Antiviral Research
• Virology

Bio

Dr. Gowen specializes in pre-clinical development of antiviral therapies for the treatment of arenaviral and bunyaviral hemorrhagic fever agents, innate immunity to viral infections, modeling viral diseases, and virus-host cell interactions. The Gowen laboratory studies arenaviral and bunyaviral hemorrhagic fever viruses, and the development of countermeasures to prevent and treat the diseases they cause. The viruses studied include various New World arenaviruses (Junin, Pichinde, Tacaribe), the Old World LCM arenavirus, and several bunyaviruses (Rift Valley fever, Heartland, severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome, Oropouche, La Crosse, and multiple hantaviruses).