Thomas Evans is the Head of Infectious Diseases at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research.

Tom joined the Novartis Institutes in June 2005 from Vical Inc. where he was Vice President, Infectious Diseases Clinical Research. Prior to that he was Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Infectious Diseases Division at the University of California, Davis.    He trained in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and infectious diseases at the University of Virginia.

Tom’s research focus is on the cellular and molecular basis of infectious diseases. He made fundamental contributions to the understanding of immune reactions in leishmaniasis and to the development and clinical testing of HIV vaccines.