Keyword(s): Genetic engineering

  1. 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. 

  2. Takao K. Hensch, PhD

    Critical periods in brain development

    Dr. Hensch’s research focuses on critical periods during brain development and has a broad impact on both basic understanding of cognitive disorders and therapeutic approaches to them. By ...

  3. 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.  

  4. Andrew Murray, PhD

    Cellular function and evolution using Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Examining budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) from the perspective of both biology and physics, investigate the mechanics of how genetic information is transferred during cell division and ...