Jacob D. Estes Ph.D.

Director of the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute

Dr. Estes graduated from Brigham Young University with a B.S. in Microbiology and Molecular Biology in 1999. He continued his graduate education at Brigham Young University and obtained his Ph.D. in Immunology and HIV Pathogenesis in 2003 in the laboratory of Dr. Gregory Burton. From 2003 to 2007, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Ashley Haase in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Minnesota focusing on the in-vivo immunopathology of lentiviral infections.

Following postdoctoral training, Dr. Estes joined the AIDS and Cancer Virus Program at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research and was a Principal Investigator of the Retroviral Immunopathology Section and Senior Principal Scientist and Head of the Tissue Analysis Core.

Dr. Estes was appointed an Adjunct Professor in the School of Health and Biomedical Sciences in the College of Science, Engineering and Health at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia in 2017. In 2017, Dr. Estes accepted a dual appointment as Professor within the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute (VGTI) and Chief of the Division of Pathobiology &Immunology in the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) at OHSU. Since Dec 2022, Dr. Estes has been the Director of the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute (VGTI).

Kathleen Busman-Sahay, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor

Lisa Ann Bay, MD.

Program Administrator

Michael Nekorchuk, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist

Shashank Ganatra, MBBS
Staff Scientist

William Burgess, M.S.
Research Associate

Stephen Bondoc, HTL(ASCP)
Research Associate

Kateland Sipe
Research Data Analyst

Margaret Martin, HT(ASCP)
Senior Research Assistant

Beth Heninger
Research Assistant II

Nathaniel Freuler
Research Assistant II

Anderson Spencer
Research Assistant II

Anthony Tran
Research Assistant II

Michael Clark
Research Assistant II

Olivia Broadley
Research Assistant II

Sarah Peterson
Laboratory Assistant