Organizing Committee Member
Peter L. Nara
Chief Executive Officer, President, Chairman & co-founder
Iowa State University
United States
Biography
Dr. Nara currently is the Chief Executive Officer, President, Chairman & co-founder of Biological Mimetics, Inc. and holds the Endowed Eugene Lloyd Entrepreneurial Chair and Professor in Vaccinology, founding Center Director for the Center for Advanced Host Defense, Immunobiotics, and Translational Comparative Medicine in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Iowa State University, is an adjunct professor of Microbiology/Immunology, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa.
Research Area
Dr. Nara holds an M.Sc. in Immuno-pharmacology, a combined Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Ph.D. (retro-virology/oncogenesis) from The Ohio State University, 4 year combined residency in Comparative Pathology and NIH senior post-doctoral Fellowship at both the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the NIH respectively. He has received numerous awards and recognition and in 2011 was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his work related to Deceptive Imprinting and Immune Refocusing Technology.