As the program director for the Medical Laboratory Science programs from 1978 until 2012, Dr. Silver led the program in its transition from an on-campus traditional program to a distance education program, allowing students to pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees while staying in their present geographic locations. Dr. Silver has been involved with professional development in clinical research related to HIV nationally and internationally, and most recently working with early stage investigators in HIV research. Dr. Silver has more than 20 years’ experience in biorepository quality management through her NCI funding for the AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource, her role as the director for the AIDS Malignancy Clinical Trials Consortium BIorepository and her oversight for NCI of the new AIDS and Cancer Resource Regional Biorepository for Sub-Saharan Africa at Stellenbosch University in Cape Town South Africa.
Sylvia Silver, DA, MTS
Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine | Professor of Pathology