Dr Cara Burns

Cara C. Burns, PhD, is the Acting Branch Chief of the Polio and Picornavirus Laboratory Branch in the Division of Viral Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She obtained her B.S. in Biochemistry from Texas A&M University. She obtained her Ph.D. in 1991 from the University of Utah studying poliovirus, followed by postdoctoral training on retroviruses at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. Her work at CDC since 1998 has focused on poliovirus molecular epidemiology and surveillance, support for poliovirus sequencing by the Global Polio Laboratory Network, and using poliovirus as a model for rational vaccine design.