Ricardo Carrion, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor, Principal Investigator
Ricardo Carrion, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor, Principal Investigator
Research Focus
Dr. Carrion’s lab aims to advance the vaccine and therapy development specifically for hemorrhagic fever, an illness caused by viruses from distinct families, many of which have no cure, and for which no vaccines are available. The team uses the maximum containment biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) laboratory to safely study those pathogens.
- Filoviruses: Ebola virus, Marburg virus, Sudan virus
- Arena viruses: Lassa virus, Machupo virus
- Alphaviruses: Eastern equine encephalitis virus, Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus, Western equine encephalitis virus
- Nonhuman primate infectious disease models
- Advanced development of vaccines for hemorrhagic fever viruses
- New detection methods for bioterror agents
Dr. Carrion has more than 25 years of experience in microbiology and parasitology.