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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches
Pages 243-249
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He presently chairs the IOM Committee on Spinal Cord Injury: Strategies in a Search for a Cure. Harvey Alter, M.D., is chief of the Infectious Diseases Section and associate director of research at the National Institutes of Health Department of Transfusion.
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His laboratory is the World Health Organization's Collaborating Center for Food Virology. He has served as a member of the Food and Drug Administration's Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Advisory Committee and belongs to several scientific associations.
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He is a member of several professional societies and has been a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies since 1996. He has been a scientific councilor to the Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, and a consultant to the World Health Organization for the eradication of poliomyelitis and measles virus infections.
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He also is a member of the United Kingdom Department of Health CreutzfelcitTakob Disease Incidents Panel, the United Kingdom Toint Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens/Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee, and the European Commission Working Group on Safe Disposal and Recycling Methods for Animal By-Proclucts Not Intencleci for Human Consumption.
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Dr. Asher has led and currently leads several national and international efforts to protect the public and animals from TSEs, including the World Health Organization's Biologicals Programme Consultation on TSE Standards and Diagnostics, the Food and Drug Administration's Conference on TSE Diagnostic Tests, and the Food and Drug Administration's Inter-Center TSE Decontamination Working Group.
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In 1990, he chaired the prion study group of the International Commission on the Taxonomy of Viruses. He now serves on the executive committee of the World Health Organization and the Food and Drug Administration's advisory committee for TSEs.
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She characterized chronic wasting disease during her graduate studies in 1980 and has made it a focus of her professional work. Her other research interests include diseases of endangered species, such as the black-footed ferret, and the relationship between wildlife and domestic animal diseases.
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