Barry Margulies
Dr. Barry Margulies received B.S. at MIT in Applied Biological Sciences, with research under Drs. Eyal Ron and Robert Langer in controlled release technology. He earned his Ph.D. at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Biochemistry, Cellular, and Molecular Biology under Dr. Wade Gibson, where he studied the G protein-coupled receptors encoded by human cytomegalovirus. He did his post-doctoral studies also at the Hopkins School of Medicine (Division of Comparative Medicine), with Dr. Janice Clements, studying CD4-independent entry of human and simian immunodeficiency viruses. He was faculty at Towson University from 2001-2021, where he established the Towson University Herpes Virus Lab. His research encompassed the molecular biology of human cytomegalovirus and new methods for the long-term prevention of recurrent outbreaks of HSV-1 and -2, VZV, and feline herpes virus-1. He joined NIH as a Scientific Review Officer in 2022.