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Kim Y. Green, PhD

Sr. Investigator
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, United States

Kim Y. Green, Ph.D. Chief, Calicivirus Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, NIAID

Dr. Green was trained as a virologist and received her Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences in Memphis, Tennessee in 1986. After recruitment to the LID rotavirus vaccine program led by Dr. Albert Kapikian as a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Green was asked to investigate the role of other potentially important viruses in human gastrointestinal illness. Her early work at NIH helped establish the major role of the noroviruses in acute gastroenteritis and their complex molecular epidemiology. Since then, Dr. Green and her team in the Caliciviruses Section have used a multidisciplinary approach to investigate basic features of norovirus molecular biology, pathogenesis, and immunity relating to the development of vaccines and therapeutics. Recently she identified enteroendocrine epithelial cells in the intestine as a major target for human norovirus infection. In tandem with basic research, collaborative efforts are underway to translate these findings to the clinic in order to lessen the norovirus disease burden in patients with severe disease. She has collaborated with a group at Childrens National Medical Center to identify norovirus-specific T cell epitopes in human donors and is planning a collaborative study of virus-specific T cells to treat norovirus infection in immunocompromised persons. Dr. Green is recognized as an expert in the field of caliciviruses, serving on the Caliciviridae Study Group and the Norovirus Nomenclature Committee. She is a member of the American Academy of Microbiology and on the editorial board of Viruses.

I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

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