Keyword(s): AIDS

  1. Victoria D'Souza, PhD

    Structural biology of retroviruses

    The D’Souza laboratory investigates the structural basis of retroviral replication, including the initiation of reverse transcription and translation of viral genes. Understanding the ...

  2. Ronald Desrosiers, PhD

    HIV and AIDS: vaccine; persistent immune response

    Develop new strategies for blunting viral replication and bolstering the immune system’s ability to eradicate viral-infected T-cell reservoirs. 

  3. David Evans, PhD

    HIV infection and AIDS vaccine development

    Investigate new approaches for AIDS vaccine development using SIV infection of non-human primates as a model system.  

  4. Robert Paul Johnson, MD

    HIV mechanism of action and new AIDS therapies

    Gene therapy; vaccines

  5. Amitinder Kaur, MD

    AIDS pathogenesis and CMV opportunistic infection: SIV; vaccine; AIDS resistance

    AIDS modeling in non-human primates; reactivation of latent CMV in HIV-infected individuals; innate resistance to SIV-related disease progression.  

  6. Arlene Sharpe, MD, PhD

    T-cell regulation and disease: chronic viral infection; autoimmunity, tumor immunotherapy, peripheral tolerance

    T cell co-stimulation and its immunoregulatory role in controlling the balance between T cell activation and tolerance.  

  7. Susan Westmoreland, VMD

    Neuropathology of HIV and SIV infections and AIDS

    Explore the molecular and cellular bases of neuropathologies associated with HIV and SIV infections, including encephalitis and dementia.