Primary Job Title Founder Primary Organization Agilvax
Location Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States Regions Western US Gender Male
David Peabody is a Professor in the University of New Mexico’s Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and a co-inventor of the Agilvax technology.
He was trained at Stanford University in the laboratory of Paul Berg (Nobel Prize, 1980) and has been associated with the University of New Mexico since 1984.
For a number of years he
studied RNA viruses of bacteria as model systems to understand gene regulation, but in recent years has focused on adapting the virus-like particles of these bacteriophages as platforms for vaccine development and targeted drug delivery.