Biography
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Edward McSweegan, Ph.D., is a program officer at NIAID. He graduated from Boston College in 1978 (B.S.) and has degrees in microbiology from the University of New Hampshire (M.S.) and the University of Rhode Island (Ph.D.).
He was a National Research Council Associate (1984-1986) and did post-doctoral research at the Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. McSweegan then served as an AAAS Diplomacy Fellow in the U.S. State Department (1986-1988), helping to negotiate science and technology agreements with Poland, Hungary, and the former Soviet Union. After moving to the Office of Tropical Medicine and International Research at NIAID, he continued to work on international health and science projects in Egypt, India, Israel, and Russia.
Dr. McSweegan also served as a guest scientist at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, helped write technical guidance for electronic versions of FDA drug applications at CBER, and assisted the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief under the CDC's International Experience and Technical Assistance Program in Swaziland, Africa.
Dr. McSweegan manages the Indo-U.S. Vaccine Action Program at NIAID, and represented NIAID in the HHS Biotechnology Engagement Program with Russia and related countries.
He is a member of AAAS, the American Society for Microbiology, and the National Science Writers Association. He is the author of numerous journal articles and freelance science articles, and was a columnist for the Annapolis, Maryland newspaper, The Capital. He has won a number of local and national awards for his writing. Source
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Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, NIAID
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Edward McSweegan, Ph.D. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 6610 Rockledge Drive Room 5065 Bethesda, MD 20892-6603 Phone: 301-402-8370 FAX: 301-402-0659 mcsweegan@nih.gov