Dr. Schoolnik is Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, Departments of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is also Co-Chairman, Blue Ribbon Panel on bio-terrorism and its implications for biomedical research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda. Dr. Schoolnik is a distinguished leader in the area of molecular microbial pathogenesis and pioneered the use of DNA microarrays for studying gene expression in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. He serves on the Scientific Advisory Boards of numerous companies and national and international agencies. Dr. Schoolnik began his medical career at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and was Chief Resident for Internal Medicine at the Hospital (1977-78). Dr. Schoolnik was a member of the Microbiology Department at Rockefeller University (1978-81), and thereafter joined the faculty at Stanford, where he has been since. He was an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 1987 to 1996. Dr. Schoolnik is one of the world's experts on infectious diseases, and he serves as a senior advisor to the National Institute of Health and the US Department of Defense.

Dr. Schoolnik attended Stanford University and received his M.D. degree with honors from the University of Washington, Seattle. He has published more than 130 refereed original articles, contributed 60 monographs and book chapters and holds 8 patents.&lt;/p.