Head, TB Unit
Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH
Education:
Ph.D., 2001, Microbiology and Immunology, Temple University School of Medicine
Biography
Dr. Darrah joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Vaccine Research Center (VRC) in 2002 as a post-doctoral fellow in the Cellular Immunology Section under Dr. Robert Seder where she began studying the cellular mechanisms by which vaccines mediate protection. She transitioned to a Staff Scientist in 2009 and became Head of the VRC’s Tuberculosis Unit in 2016. Her work focuses on how vaccine route and dose influence immunity and protection against tuberculosis (TB) and on defining correlates of protection to facilitate translation of novel TB vaccines from pre-clinical animal models into humans.