Chris Wilson, M.D.
- BMGF (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
- Advisor to BMGF
Additional Positions: Former Director of the Global Health Discovery program
While Dr. Chris Wilson was the Director of the Global Health Discovery Program, he led a team that targets fundamental scientific and technological advances in global health that could lead to new ways to prevent, treat, and diagnose disease.
Wilson joined the foundation in 2009 as Deputy Director, Vaccine Discovery and Human Biology, Global Health Discovery.
He joined the faculty at the University of Washington in 1979 in the Infectious Diseases Division of the Department of Pediatrics and later served as head of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Immunology and Rheumatology. In 1989, he became one of the founding faculty members in the new Department of Immunology, and served as Chairman of the Department of Immunology and head of the graduate program in immunology from 1999-2009.
He has also served on a number of national advisory panels, including the Institute of Medicine Vaccine Safety Review Committee (2001-2004) and the National Advisory Council on Child Health and Human Development, NICHD, NIH, and he co-chaired the NIAID US Immunodeficiency Network Pilot Grant Review Committee. He is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Research Interests: Pediatrics and immunology
Education: Wilson received a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Irvine and a medical degree from UCLA. He trained in pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital /Harvard Medical School, served in the US Public Health Service, and then was a post-doctoral fellow in infectious diseases while performing immunology research at Stanford University.