Biography:

 DR. Stefano Forte is a Professor and currently at head of the Laboratory of Molecular Virology at the George Mason University. He has obtained more than $15.8 M in funding (NIH, DOD, DOE, and Keck) since his departure from NIH’s intramural program in 2000. He has published more than 218 peer-reviewed manuscripts (h index = 57) and served as an editorial board and reviewer for journals such as JBC, Retrovirology, J. Virol, Virology, NAR, 4 PLoS Journals, Cell, Molecular Cell, Nature Medicine, Nature communications, Scientific Report and Science Translational Medicine.