Mary Marovich
Director, Vaccine Program, Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Mary Marovich, MD is the Director of the Vaccine Research Program in the Division of AIDS at NIAID where she leads the development, strategic planning and coordination of global clinical testing and preclinical research on HIV and TB vaccines and biologics. The program has built an increasingly complex portfolio of vaccine candidates, monoclonal antibodies and adjuvants for pre-clinical research and translation to Phase 1-3 clinical testing to develop effective protection from HIV and TB infection. Previously, Marovich was the chief of vaccine research and development at the U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. There, she led an international HIV vaccine research program testing multiple vaccine platform technologies, served as clinic director and principal investigator on multiple early-stage HIV and non-HIV vaccine studies and chaired the ethics review board. Marovich earned her medical degree at Loyola University of Chicago, completed training in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the University of Colorado, and tropical medicine and hygiene training at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Marovich completed research fellowship training in immunology at NIAID. A professor of medicine with the Uniformed Services University’s Department of Medicine, Marovich has won several honors for academic and teaching excellence. She is a member of the American Medical Association, the American Society of Tropical Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.
