Franco M. Piazza, MD, MPH
Medical Director
Franco Piazza joined IDRI as Medical Director in July of 2003. He is currently in charge of clinical development of vaccine candidates for leishmaniasis and tuberculosis.
Dr. Piazza was born in and grew up in Lima, Peru. He graduated from Cayetano Heredia University School of Medicine in Lima, Peru in 1982. Between 1982 and 1989, Dr. Piazza completed residency training in pediatrics, obtained a master's degree in public health, and completed fellowship training in pediatric pulmonology at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. From 1989 to 2001, he was an attending physician in pulmonary medicine at Children's National Medical Center and a faculty member in the department of pediatrics of the George Washington University, in Washington, DC. Between January of 2001 and June of 2003, he was Director of Clinical Development in Infectious Diseases and Immunology at MedImmune, Inc. in Gaithersburg, Maryland, where he worked in the clinical development of monoclonal antibodies.
- Steven G. Reed, PhD - Senior Vice President, Research & Development, IDRI Founder
- Curtis D. Malloy, JD, MPH - Senior Vice President, Operations & General Counsel
- Jill Ashman, MSc - Senior Clinical Research Manager
- Susan Baldwin, PhD - Senior Scientist
- Anna Marie Beckmann, PhD - Vice President, Development & Regulatory
- Sylvie Bertholet, PhD - Senior Scientist
- Ajay Bhatia, PhD - Senior Scientist
- Darrick Carter, PhD - Director of Formulations
- Allen Casey - Group Leader, High Throughput Screening/Robotics
- James Chesko, PhD - Senior Scientist
- Therese Coad, CPA - Director of Finance
- Jessica Cohen, JD - Assistant General Counsel
- Rhea N. Coler, PhD - Vice President, Preclinical Biology
- Karen D. Cowgill, PhD, MSc - Clinical Research Manager
- Malcolm S. Duthie, PhD - Scientist II
- Yasuyuki Goto, PhD - Scientist I
- Alice Grasset, DVM, MBA - Project Manager
- Randall F Howard, PhD - Project Manager
- Gregory C. Ireton, PhD - Scientist I
- Edward A. Kesicki, PhD - Director, Small-Molecule Drug Discovery
- Karen Kinch - Vice President, Administration
- Joshua Oluoch Odingo, PhD - Director, Chemistry
- Tanya Parish, PhD - Acting Director, Drug Discovery
- Franco M. Piazza, MD, MPH - Medical Director
- Vanitha S. Raman, PhD - Scientist I
- David Roberts, PhD - Scientist I
- Angela Gollnick Schroeder, MBA - Project Manager
- Paul Sleath, PhD - Consultant, Manufacturing
- Robrick Smith - IT Manager
- Thomas Vedvick, PhD - Director, Process Sciences
- Winston Wicomb, PhD, LATG - Senior Scientist / Animal Facility Manager
- Julie Youssef - Human Resources Manager