Brett Giroir

Dr. Giroir currently serves as President and CEO of ViraCyte, LLC and as an Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics, Tropical Medicine and Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Prior to that he was the Executive Vice President and CEO at the Texas A&M Health Science Center, and earlier he served as Director, Defense Science Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and also as a Chief Medical Officer at Children’s Health in Dallas, as well as a Professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He earned a A.B., magna cum laude in Biology from Harvard University and his M.D. from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He has received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service and the Texas A&M University System Award for Innovation. He serves as Chair of the Veterans Choice Act Blue Ribbon Panel to Review and Assess the Veterans Health System, a Scientific Advisory Board Member at the Cancer Moonshots Program, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and is a Scientific Advisory Board Member at the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute, University of Michigan.