---
type: Person
title: H. Clifford Lane
description: "Clinical Director, NIAID"
tags:
  - person
  - niaid
organization: niaid
document_count: 90
first_seen: "2013-09-26T22:17:00"
last_seen: "2022-08-02T09:08:00"
aliases:
  - clane@niaid.nih.gov
  - Cliff Lane
  - Clifford Lane
  - H. Clifford Lane
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---

Clinical Director, NIAID

# Activity

- **Documents:** 90 (sent/authored 41, received 49)
- **Active:** 2013-09-26 to 2022-08-02
- **Organization:** [niaid](/organizations/niaid.md)
- **Appears as:** `clane@niaid.nih.gov`, `Cliff Lane`, `Clifford Lane`, `H. Clifford Lane`

# Correspondents

| Person | Messages | First | Last |
|---|---:|---|---|
| [Trevor Mundel](/people/trevor-mundel.md) | 29 | 2020-04-15 | 2020-04-15 |
| [Mike Poole](/people/mike-poole.md) | 28 | 2020-04-15 | 2020-04-15 |
| [Christa Bowles](/people/christa-bowles.md) | 27 | 2020-04-15 | 2020-04-15 |
| [Patricia Conrad](/people/patricia-conrad.md) | 26 | 2020-04-15 | 2020-04-15 |
| [Francis S. Collins](/people/francis-s-collins.md) | 20 | 2013-09-26 | 2021-04-29 |
| [Penny Heaton](/people/penny-heaton.md) | 16 | 2020-04-15 | 2020-04-18 |
| [Jim Neaton](/people/jim-neaton.md) | 6 | 2020-04-18 | 2020-04-18 |
| [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) | 4 | 2014-08-08 | 2021-03-01 |
| [Elizabeth Higgs](/people/elizabeth-higgs.md) | 2 | 2014-10-17 | 2014-10-17 |
| [Jintanat Ananworanich](/people/jintanat-ananworanich.md) | 2 | 2020-04-18 | 2020-04-18 |
| [Carole Hudgings](/people/carole-hudgings.md) | 1 | 2018-12-12 | 2018-12-12 |
| Conrad | 1 | 2020-04-15 | 2020-04-15 |
| Conrad | 1 | 2020-04-15 | 2020-04-15 |
| Conrad | 1 | 2020-04-15 | 2020-04-15 |
| Conrad | 1 | 2020-04-15 | 2020-04-15 |

# Topics

* [Intelligence community assessments](/topics/intelligence-community.md) - 40 documents
* [Gates Foundation involvement](/topics/gates-foundation.md) - 31 documents
* [WHO and international investigation](/topics/who-international.md) - 30 documents
* [Awards, honoraria and recognition](/topics/awards-honoraria.md) - 20 documents
* [Therapeutics and treatments](/topics/treatments.md) - 7 documents
* [Vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md) - 7 documents
* [Biosafety and biosecurity](/topics/biosafety.md) - 2 documents
* [Lab-leak / accidental release hypothesis](/topics/lab-leak-origin.md) - 1 documents
* [Media strategy and public messaging](/topics/media-messaging.md) - 1 documents
* [Testing and surveillance](/topics/testing-surveillance.md) - 1 documents

# Statement timeline

What this person is recorded saying, in date order, quoted verbatim with page citations.

* **2014-10-17** ([vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md), questions): "For the discussion regarding placebo controls I am not sure the water is as clear as it was to me for vaccines." [^gates]
* **2015-02-03** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "Peggy - if I had not worked with you when you were a special assistant in Tony's off ice there is no chance I would see such a note to the FDA Commissioner." [^diary_prequel]
* **2015-02-03** ([vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md), asserts): "Cliff On Feb 3, 2015, at 7:27 PM, Doepel, Laurie (NIH/NIAID) [E] <LDOEPEL@niaid.nih.gov> wrote: Low infection rate halts Ebola vaccine trials in Liberia By Afp Published: 14:17 EST, 3 February 2015 I Updated: 14:17 EST, 3 February 2015 Britain's Wellcome…" [^diary_prequel]
* **2015-02-03** ([vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md), asserts): "The Wellcome Trust said the decision was taken on Tuesday after the pharmaceutical company Chimerix, which manufactures the brincidofovir vaccine, said it was withdrawing from the trial on Friday." [^diary_prequel]
* **2015-02-03** ([vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md), asserts): ""It is essential that other studies of potential treatments and vaccines continue and hopefully will still be able to deliver meaningful results for this and the inevitable future epidemics of Ebola," he said." [^diary_prequel]
* **2020-04-15** ([gates_foundation](/topics/gates-foundation.md), asserts): "President, Global Health Program 1.Z0V> [E] Easiest way is by cell: ay [ ov> || 1.Z0V> 3 AM V F E @gatesfoundation.org Christa Bowles Executive Assistant Office of the President, Global Health V M E @gatesfoundation.org Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation…" [^gates]
* **2020-04-15** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "ee Conrad, Patricia (NIH/NIAID) [E] niaid.nih.gov> Cc: Christa Bowles gatesfoundation.org>; Mike Poole gatesfoundation.org>; Penny Heaton ) gatesmri.org>; Jim Neaton umn.edu> Subject: IVIg Protocol Team Attention: This message was sent from an external domain." [^gates]
* **2020-04-15** ([gates_foundation](/topics/gates-foundation.md), asserts): "As we discussed it would be great to have a representative from the Gates Foundation as part of that team." [^gates]
* **2020-04-18** ([treatments](/topics/treatments.md), asserts): "She is a pediatrician and immunologist, currently co-leading our RSV monoclonal antibody program among others." [^gates]
* **2020-04-18** ([treatments](/topics/treatments.md), asserts): "She is a pediatrician and immunologist, currently co-leading our RSV monoclonal antibody program among others." [^gates]
* **2020-04-18** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "She is a pediatrician and immunologist, currently co-leading our RSV monoclonal antibody program among others." [^gates]

# Sources

[^diary_prequel]: [diary_prequel](/sources/diary-prequel.md)
[^fauci_awards]: [fauci_awards](/sources/fauci-awards.md)
[^fauci_diary]: [fauci_diary](/sources/fauci-diary.md)
[^gates]: [gates](/sources/gates.md)
[^reading_room]: [reading_room](/sources/reading-room.md)
