Raul Andino is a virologist and professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco.
[2] He is noted for leading a team of researchers that developed the first new oral polio vaccine in 50 years.
[2] He then joined the faculty of the University of California, San Francisco as an assistant professor.
Together with Andrew Macadam, Andino redesigned the polio vaccine so it can stop the virus from re-evolving.
[1] His group has also had a long-standing interest in RNA interference as an antiviral defense, and in the dynamics of viral evolution during infection and transmission.