Chen is a molecular biologist who specializes in developing novel human therapeutics and vaccines in plants to combat infectious diseases, cancer, and biological warfare agents.

Scotch's research focuses on genomic epidemiology and bioinformatics and RNA viruses with a particular interest in influenza A viruses (human and avian).

Blattman is an immunologist who studies how the immune system responds to vaccination and viral infection.

Jacobs is an expert on a poxvirus called vaccinia. He has genetically engineered vaccinia as a vehicle against infectious agents, bioterrorism threats, cancer and other viruses, including HIV.

Mor is a molecular biologist and biochemist whose research focuses on using plants to produce useful and therapeutic polypeptides, proteins and enzymes.

Hogue is a virologist who studies how coronaviruses, a large family of RNA viruses, that includes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), assemble and cause disease.

Varsani is a molecular virologist who works across ecosystems from plants to animals and from the tropics to polar regions.