Barton Haynes

Who is this?

Barton F. Haynes is an American physician and scientist who is known for work on basic biology of the immune system and on HIV vaccine development. An infectious disease specialist, Haynes is the founding director of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI) and since 2005, has been an international leader in the effort to develop an HIV vaccine. He led the team that first induced HIV broadly reactive neutralizing antibody lineages in humans with a vaccine. He has performed work on HIV-host interactions that have led to strategies for HIV vaccine development and, more generally, concepts for engineering the B cell arm of the immune system. Haynes' team played an active role in the response to COVID-19 by developing a vaccine for new animal coronaviruses.

Career

1. 2011
   Won Alexander Fleming Award
2. Member of National Academy of Sciences

Trivia

• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: physician, immunologist, researcher