Gene D. Morse, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS

Dr. Morse is a tenured State University of New York (SUNY) Distinguished Professor, Director of the Center for Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo (UB), and Co-Director of the SUNY Global Health Institute. He is the Executive Director of the SUNY – UWI Center for Leadership and Sustainable Development. He has been actively involved in viral infectious diseases and antiviral pharmacology and therapeutics research since 1986, when was one of the founding investigators of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) and its Specialty Laboratory Network. He is currently a co-I of the University of Rochester Clinical Trials Site and the subaward PI for the clinical pharmacology investigative team with cross/adjunct appointments as Professor of Medicine at the University at Buffalo, the University of Rochester, the University of the West Indies, and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center (Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics). He is the Co-Director of the Western New York COVID-19 Research Collaborative (transitioned to the Rethink WNY Community Health Collaborative in 2023). He is currently PI for a NIAID/DAIDS contract for Clinical Pharmacology Quality Assurance, the Program Director/PI for the UB/SUNY-University of Zimbabwe HIV Research Training Program and has been a primary mentor for a recent K43 awardee at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa in nanomedicine for TB and a recently awarded K43 applicant at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria in antiviral therapeutics and mental health. He has 25 years of capacity building and research training experience, including as the current PD/PI for the Fogarty International Center Global Infectious Diseases (GID) Research Training Program with The University of The West Indies Faculty of Medical Sciences. The GID is focused on research capacity building and mentoring Jamaican trainees in infectious disease diagnostics and therapeutics research. He is the co-director of the State University of New York (SUNY) - University of the West Indies (UWI) Health Research Consortium, and the Global Biomedical Sciences Partnerships Liaison for Health Galaxy Park in Harare, Zimbabwe.