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Franco M. Piazza, MD, MPH
Medical Director
Franco Piazza is the Medical Director at IDRI. Franco joined
IDRI in July of 2003 and is currently in charge of clinical
development of vaccine candidates for leishmaniasis and
tuberculosis.
Prior to joining IDRI, Franco was an attending physician in
pulmonary medicine at Children's National Medical Center,
and a faculty member in the department of pediatrics at
George Washington University in Washington, DC. Between
January 2001 and June 2003, Franco served as the Director
of Clinical Development in Infectious Diseases and
Immunology at MedImmune, Inc. in Gaithersburg, Maryland,
where he focused on the clinical development of monoclonal
antibodies.
Franco obtained his MD from Cayetano Heredia University
School of Medicine in Lima, Peru. Franco completed
residency training in pediatrics, earned his MPH, and
completed fellowship training in pediatric pulmonology at the
University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
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