Vector Targeting for Therapeutic Gene Delivery

David T. Curiel, M.D. heads the Gene Therapy Center of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His scientific training includes tenure at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland and at the Pulmonary Branch of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute from 1985-1989, as well as a fellowship in Biotechnology at the National Cancer Institute, Navy Medical Oncology Branch from 1989-1990. Dr. Curiel has been at the University of Alabama at Birmingham since 1993 and is currently Director of the Gene Therapy Center as well as Director of the Division of Human Gene Therapy. He is also Jeanne and Anne Griffin Chair of Women's Cancer Research, and Professor of Experimental Gene Therapy at the Free University of Amsterdam. Joanne T. Douglas, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Human Gene Therapy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.