David LV Bauer is a virologist with an interdisciplinary background in bioinformatics, molecular biology, and biophysics. David joined the Francis Crick Institute in London as a Group Leader in 2020, where he heads the RNA Virus Replication Laboratory. His group is interested broadly in RNA viruses: how they replicate and cause disease; how immunity develops and in turn influences viral replication; and how the unique properties of RNA itself contributes to these processes. David’s group explores these processes both in vitro at the atomic and cellular levels, and in vivo with animal models and human populations as part of the Crick/UCLH Legacy Study and the West Africa, West Indies, West London Consortium.

Before joining the Crick, David completed his undergraduate degree in chemistry at the City College of New York as part of the Macaulay Honors College. He then moved to the UK and received a DPhil in Clinical Medicine from the University of Oxford in 2014, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Following a US NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship with Achilles Kapanidis in biophysics, he moved to the Dunn School of Pathology to carry out research with Ervin Fodor on influenza viruses, while an adjunct fellow at Linacre College, Oxford.

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