
"Preventing paralysis and encephalitis in children: the case for antiviral monoclonal antibodies"
About Speaker: Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Vogt earned his undergraduate degree in biology from Washington University in St. Louis. He completed his MD/PhD in Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine, conducting his doctoral research in the laboratory of Dr. Michael Diamond. Following his pediatrics residency in the Boston Combined Residency Program—affiliated with Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard and Boston Medical Center/Boston University—Dr. Vogt pursued fellowship training in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he worked in the laboratory of Dr. James Crowe. He joined the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty in 2020 in the Departments of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases) and Microbiology & Immunology and has since established the Vogt Virus Lab, working to understand and combat pediatric viral infections.