Virology Institute Faculty & Staff
The NYU Langone Virology Institute comprises faculty and staff across multiple backgrounds and disciplines who collaborate to produce creative and innovative solutions for the most difficult problems in modern virology.
Virology Institute Core Faculty
Benjamin tenOever, PhD
Founder and Director, Virology Institute
Research interests: virology, synthetic biology, innate immune signaling, spatial transcriptomics, single cell sequencing, virus–host interactions, tool building
Email: benjamin.tenoever@nyulangone.org
Ludovic P. Desvignes, PhD
Director, High-Containment Laboratories
Research interests: immunology, microbial pathogenesis, mycobacterium tuberculosis
Email: ludovic.desvignes@nyulangone.org
Mark J. Mulligan, MD
Director, Vaccine Center
Research interests: infectious disease, immunology, vaccine research and development, emerging viruses, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), influenza
Email: mark.mulligan@nyulangone.org
Virology Institute Affiliated Faculty
Simone Backes, PhD
Professor of Virology, Institute for Virology and Immunobiology
Research interests: poxvirus biology, influenza virus replication
Email: simone.backes@uni-wuerzburg.de
Gonzalo Moratorio, PhD
Associate Professor of Virology, School of Science, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Research interests: virology, evolutionary biology, experimental evolution of viruses, genetic engineering, cellular and molecular biology, translational research
Email: moratorio@pasteur.edu.uy
Marco Vignuzzi, PhD
Principal Investigator, Viral Populations and Pathogenesis Unit
Research interests: emerging and zoonotic viral diseases, antiviral therapies, RNA virus evolution, epidemic preparedness
Email: marco_vignuzzi@idlabs.a-star.edu.sg
Virology Institute Administration
Nina Umerah
Executive Director
Email: nina.umerah@nyulangone.org
Maryline Panis
Program Coordinator
Email: maryline.panis@nyulangone.org
Judith Minkoff, PhD
Project Manager
Email: judith.minkoff@nyulangone.org
Fatema Rahman
Administrative Assistant
Email: fatema.rahman@nyulangone.org
