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Work Phone Number:
(310) 825-8193
Email Address: scott.layne@ucla.edu
Work Email Address: scott.layne@ucla.edu
Education: M.D., ,
Case Western Reserve University
Education: B.A., ,
DePauw University
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Major Discipline:
Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases
Major Research Interest:
Building and utilizing high-throughput automated lab and database systems for infectious disease research and vaccine development.
Current Research Interest:
Developing tools and methods for associating epidemiologic, phenotypic, and genotypic information. Tackling "grand challenge" problems that require enormous quantities of data to make progress.
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Dr. Layne is a professor of
epidemiology at the University of California Los Angeles
(UCLA) School of Public Health and is known for cross-
disciplinary work involving biology, physics, and policy-
related issues. He has authored over 45 publications,
including three U.S. patents on methods to access and
operate high-throughput laboratories. He is an editor of
Firepower in the Lab: Automation in the Fight Against
Infectious Diseases and Bioterrorism (Joseph Henry
Press, 2001) and also of Jane's Chem-Bio Handbook,
second edition. In 1988, Scott organized "A National Effort to Model AIDS Epidemiology," a
workshop for the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and oversaw the publication
of a White House report that helped to influence AIDS research priorities in the United States.
In 1999, he also organized the meeting "Automation in Threat Reduction and Infectious Disease
Research: Needs and New Direction" under the auspices of the Institute of Medicine and
National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Layne teaches graduate level courses at UCLA on
infectious diseases, mathematical modeling, and public health responses to bioterrorism. He is
also an instructor on bioterrorism preparation and response for the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security and lectures throughout America in this capacity.
Scott received a B.A. in chemistry from DePauw University and an M.D. from Case Western
Reserve University. He is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases, with a
fellowship in adult infectious diseases. From 1982-1986 he served as postdoctoral fellow and
staff member at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and as a physicist at the Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory from 1986-1992.
Scott Layne is the Principal Investigator of the Center for Rapid Influenza Surveillance and Response (CRISAR), which is one of six NIAID Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance www3.niaid.nih.gov/research/resources/ceirs/. CRISAR will undertake national and international surveillance on animal and human derived influenza strains, and will actively contribute to NIAID's Pandemic Public Health Research Response Plan. Participating institutions include UCLA, UC Davis, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Wildlife Conservation Society, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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Layne, S. The Global Emergence and Spread Of Highly-Pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza-How Can Environmental and Infectious Disease Epidemiologists Join Forces.
Epidemiology.
2008; 19(6):
S36-S37.
Layne Scott P, Monto Arnold S, Taubenberger Jeffery K Pandemic influenza: an inconvenient mutation..
Science (New York, N.Y.).
2009; 323(5921):
1560-1.
Kajita Emily, Okano Justin T, Bodine Erin N, Layne Scott P, Blower Sally Modelling an outbreak of an emerging pathogen..
Nature reviews. Microbiology.
2007; 5(9):
700-9.
Layne Scott P Human influenza surveillance: the demand to expand..
Emerging infectious diseases.
2006; 12(4):
562-8.
Layne Scott P, Beugelsdijk Tony J High-throughput laboratories for Homeland and National Security..
Biosecurity and bioterrorism : biodefense strategy, practice, and science.
2003; 1(2):
123-30.
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Mailing Address:
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UCLA
Department of Public Health-Epidemiology
BOX 951772, 71-235 CHS
Los Angeles, CA 90095
UNITED STATES
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Work Phone Number:
(310) 825-8193
Email Address: scott.layne@ucla.edu
Work Email Address: scott.layne@ucla.edu
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