Renee C. Ireton, Ph.D.

Dr. Ireton works closely with Dr. Gale to ensure that the Center for Innate Immunity and Immune Disease (CIIID) has the administrative support to operate seamlessly. Her past experience has included work as a project manager for Dr. Gale to manage several large cross-interdisciplinary, cross-institutional NIH government contracts and grants to design novel adjuvants for vaccines and antiviral therapeutics that target the RIG-I innate immune pathway.  Her work has included expterise in the submission of large collaborative center grants.  Dr. Ireton received her Ph.D from Vanderbilt University in the field of Cancer Biology and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Fred Hutchinson Research Center in cancer proteomic biomarkers.