Hana M. El Sahly is Professor of Molecular Virology and Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). She is an attending infectious diseases physician at Ben Taub Hospital, an investigator at BCM’s Vaccine Research Center, and Principal Investigator of BCM’s Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit, Houston, TX. She currently serves as chair of the FDA Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee. Her research interests include clinical vaccine development.