Nancy Haigwood
Haigwood in 2013
Alma materUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Ph.D.)
Known forHIV/AIDS research
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Washington
Oregon National Primate Research Center
ThesisThe organization of repetitive sequences in two cloned mouse beta-globin clusters (1980)

Nancy Logan Haigwood is an American scientist. She is a professor and a former director of the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Haigwood is an HIV/AIDS researcher and serves as a volunteer board member on the Cascade AIDS Project. She is an advocate of science education and outreach.

Education

Haigwood earned a doctor of philosophy at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980.[1] She was the graduate mentor to the Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter at Chapel Hill.[2] Her dissertation was titled The organization of repetitive sequences in two cloned mouse beta-globin clusters.[3] Haigwood completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University from 1979 to 1981.[1]

Career

Haigwood worked for 17 years in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. A large portion of this was at the Chiron Corporation (Novartis) and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute. She was a professor of microbiology and pathology from 1997 to 2007 at the University of Washington and a member of the Center for Global Infectious Disease Research. In 2007, she became the fifth director of the Oregon National Primate Research Center. She is a volunteer board member of the Cascade AIDS Project and an advocate for science education and outreach. Haigwood has researched HIV/AIDS with an emphasis in preventing mother to child transmission and on vaccines since 1986.[1]

Awards and honors

Haigwood is a Fellow of the American Society for Microbiology. She won the Cascade AIDS Project 2017 Action Award for her "outstanding volunteer service to this AIDS service organization."[1]

Personal life

Haigwood contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation in early 2002 after she had suspicions that Bruce Edwards Ivins was behind the 2001 anthrax attacks.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Nancy L. Haigwood, Ph.D. | OHSU People". Oregon Health & Science University. Retrieved February 14, 2019.
  2. 1 2 Moughty, Sarah (October 10, 2011). "Nancy Haigwood: "I Had a Gut Feeling It Was Bruce"". Frontline. PBS. Retrieved February 14, 2019.
  3. ↑ Haigwood, Nancy Logan (1980). "The organization of repetitive sequences in two cloned mouse beta-globin clusters". The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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