Dr. Miller is the lead Malaria Research Scientist at the National Institute of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Dr. Miller has focused his scientific life on malaria research and its control and treatment. He has made important discoveries about the factors malaria parasites use to infect and survive in humans and mosquitoes, researched how genetic engineering could be used to neutralize mosquitoes that act as carriers of malaria, and led a program to develop vaccines against the malarial parasite.

A graduate of Haverford College, Columbia University and the medical school at Washington University, Dr. Miller began working on malaria in 1965. In 1971, he joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to head the malaria section of the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases.

Dr. Miller is a recipient of many awards and honors, including the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Infectious Disease Research; election to the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine; the Paul Ehrlich-Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize; and the Humanitarian award of Haverford College.