Margaret Liu,

Margaret is an accomplished leader in the research and development of vaccine and immunization programs for infectious diseases, particularly HIV, and in the field of gene-based therapies. She served as Senior Director at Merck Research Laboratories in the Department of Virus and Cell Biology; Vice President of Vaccines Research and Gene Therapy at Chiron Corporation; Senior Advisor in Vaccinology at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Vice-Chairman of Transgene, Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Group of the International Vaccine Institute in Seoul, Korea; a member of the Board and Advisory Council of the American Society of Gene Therapy; a member of the NIH AIDS Vaccine Research Working Group; and a member of the NIH NIAID Council. She is currently Foreign Adjunct Professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and consults in the fields of vaccines and immunotherapy. She serves as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International Vaccine Institute, is a member of the Board of Directors of the Keystone Symposia and the Immunogens and Antigen Processing Working Group of the HIV Enterprise, is on the Advisory Board of the European AIDS Vaccine Integrated Project (AVIP), and is on the faculty of Europrise (The European Vaccines and Microbicides Enterprise).