Lynn Pulliam's Biography

Lynn Pulliam, Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Medicine, University of California San Francisco

Dr Pulliam received her BA degree from Northwestern University, her MS in Microbiology at California State University at Long Beach and her PhD in Experimental Pathology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is a Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Medicine at UCSF and Director of Microbiology at the San Francisco VA Health Care Center. She was the Director of Research at the SF VA, the largest VA research center in the US, for 7 years. She is a founding member and past President of the International Society for Neurovirology (ISNV) as well as the Women in Neuroscience awardee and recipient of the ISNV Pioneer Award. She serves on the Board of Directors of ISNV and the Editorial Boards of several journals. She has also received awards from AmFar, the Northern California Institute for Research and Education and Drexel University Prize in Neurovirology.