Carl Alving BS, MD

Dr. Alving has been a research investigator at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) in Silver Spring, Maryland, since 1970. His education and training include a B.S. from Haverford College; an M.D. from University of Miami Miller School of Medicine; and an internship and residency in medicine and a fellowship in pharmacology at Barnes Hospital and Washington University in St. Louis. He served on active duty in the U.S. Army Medical Corps from 1970 to 2000, and retired as a colonel. He was Chief of the Department of Membrane Biochemistry at WRAIR from 1978 to 2004. As a civil service employee, he is currently Chief of the Laboratory of Adjuvant and Antigen Research at WRAIR. He is also an adjunct professor of microbiology and immunology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD.