Robert G. Webster holds the Rose Marie Thomas Chair in Virology@St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. He is also director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on the Ecology of Influenza Viruses in Lower Animals and Birds, the world's only laboratory designed to study influenza@the animal-human interface. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of London, the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society of New Zealand, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. In December 2002, he was presented with the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Infectious Diseases Research.

Address: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 332 North Lauderdale Street, Suite 718, Memphis, TN 38105. Internet: Robert.Webster@stjude.org