Barton Ford Haynes MD

Barton F. Haynes, M.D. is the Frederic M. Hanes Professor of Medicine and Immunology and Director of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute. Before leading the DHVI, Dr. Haynes served as Chief of the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Clinical Immunology, and later as Chair of the Department of Medicine. As Director of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Bart Haynes is leading a team of investigators working on vaccines for emerging infections, including tuberculosis, pandemic influenza, emerging coronaviruses, and HIV/AIDS.

To work on the AIDS vaccine problem, his group has been awarded two large consortium grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) known as the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) (2005-2012), and the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology-Immunogen Discovery (CHAVI-ID) (2012-2019) to conduct discovery science to speed HIV vaccine development. In July 2019, his team received the third NIH “CHAVI” award to complete the HIV vaccine development work - CHAV-D.