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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Richard Coico is Professor of Cell Biology and Medicine and Director of the Clinical and Translational Science Center at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn New York. His teaching experience has spanned major public and private academic medical centers where he has directed medical school courses and participated in innumerable medical education curriculum activities. He is past‐President of the Association of Medical School Microbiology and Immunology Chairs (AMSMIC) organization and, during his tenure as a department Chair, he served on and chaired AMSMIC’s medical education committee. Throughout his career, his research interests have concerned the study of the physiological role of IgD—a B‐cell membrane immunoglobulin co‐expressed with IgM—and computational approaches to the identification of candidate vaccines for several hemorrhagic viruses, including Ebola and Lassa fever viruses.