Annie De Groot

Dr. Annie De Groot earned a BA from Smith College and her M.D. from Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago. After vaccinology training under Russell Howard (NIAID Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases) and Jay Berzofsky (National Cancer Institute), and training in Infectious Diseases at Tufts New England Medical Center, De Groot joined the faculty of Brown Medical School. In 1998 she founded EpiVax, Inc. In collaboration with EpiVax’s cofounder Bill Martin and colleague Lenny Moise, Dr. De Groot developed and validated EpiMatrix and JanusMatrix, a set of immunoinformatics tools that bring new insights to bear on the human immune response to pathogens and vaccines.  Dr. De Groot is the founder and director of the Institute for Immunology and Informatics at the University of Rhode Island, and volunteers as medical director of Clinica Esperanza/Hope Clinic, and scientific director at GAIA Vaccine Foundation.