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W. Ian Lipkin ’74, director of the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) and John Snow Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, has been named a National Academy of Inventors Fellow. The honor recognizes his achievements developing novel technologies for infectious disease diagnosis, surveillance, and discovery in service of public health. Lipkin—known as the “master virus hunter” for his role in the discovery of more than 2,500 microbes and counting—together with colleagues at CII has long been at the forefront of developing tools for microbial discovery and diagnosis.