Nancy Logan Haigwood is an American scientist. She is a professor and the director of the

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. Haigwood is an HIV/AIDS researcher and serves as a volunteer board member on the Cascade AIDS Project. She is an advocate of science education and outreach.

Education

Haigwood earned a doctor of philosophy at

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...

in 1980. She was the graduate mentor to the

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chapter at Chapel Hill. Her dissertation was titled ''The organization of repetitive sequences in two cloned mouse beta-globin clusters''. Haigwood completed a postdoctoral fellowship at

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from 1979 to 1981.

Career

Haigwood worked for 17 years in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. A large portion of this was at the

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(

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) and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute. She was a professor of microbiology and pathology from 1997 to 2007 at the

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and a member of the

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. In 2007, she became the fifth director of the

. She is a volunteer board member of the Cascade AIDS Project and an advocate for science education and outreach. Haigwood has researched HIV/AIDS with an emphasis in preventing mother to child transmission and on vaccines since 1986.

Awards and honors

Haigwood is a Fellow of the

American Society for Microbiology The American Society for Microbiology (ASM), originally the Society of American Bacteriologists, is a professional organization for scientists who study viruses, bacteria, fungi, algae, and protozoa as well as other aspects of microbiology. It ...

. She won the Cascade AIDS Project 2017 Action Award for her "outstanding volunteer service to this AIDS service organization."

Personal life

Haigwood contacted the

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in early 2002 after she had suspicions that

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was behind the

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