Scientific Advisory Committee

Chair
Lishomwa (Lish) Ndhlovu, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases
Weill Cornell Medicine

Celina Abreu, PhD*
Research Associate
Department of Molecular & Comparative Pathobiology
School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University

José Alcamí, MD, PhD*
Head of AIDS Immunopathogenesis Unit
National Centre of Microbiology
Instituto de Salud Carlos III

Petronela Ancuta, PhD*
Professor
Department of Microbiology, Infectiology and Immunology
Université de Montréal

Deborah J. Anderson, PhD
Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology and Virology, Immunology & Microbiology
Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Boston University

Warren Andiman, MD
Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Yale School of Medicine

Patrick Arbuthnot, MD*
Professor and Director
Wits/SAMRC Antiviral Gene Therapy Research Unit
South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)

Nancie M. Archin, PhD*
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
Department of Medicine
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Samuel Bosomprah, MSc, PhD*
Senior Lecturer
Department of Biostatistics
University of Ghana

Jason Brenchley, PhD*
Senior Investigator
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, Barrier Immunity Section
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health

Shilpa Buch, PhD*
Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience
University of Nebraska, Medical Center

Dennis R. Burton, PhD
Director, Scripps CHAVD
Chair, Department of Immunology and Microbiology
The Scripps Research Institute

Salvatore T. Butera, DVM, PhD
Chief Operating Officer
Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD)
The Scripps Research Institute

Edward Campbell, PhD
Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Loyola University at Chicago

David B. Clifford, MD
Melba and Forest Seay Professor of Clinical Neuropharmacology in Neurology
Washington University School of Medicine

Grant Colfax, MD
Director
San Francisco Department of Public Health

Deborah Jean Cotton, MD, MPH
Emeritus Professor, Medicine
Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Boston University

Bryan R. Cullen, PhD, DSc
James B. Duke Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Founding Director, Duke University Center for Virology
Duke University Medical Center

Susanna Cunningham-Rundles, PhD
Professor Emerita of Research Immunology in Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
Weill Cornell Medical College

Richard Thomas D’Aquila, MD
The Howard Taylor Ricketts. MD Professorship
Division of Infectious Diseases
Associate Vice President of Research
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University

Zeger Debyser, MD, PhD*
Professor
Molecular Virology and Gene Therapy Unit
Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Sherry Deren, PhD
Founding Director Emeritus
Center for Drug Use and HIV Research
Visiting Research Professor
New York University School of Public Health

Roger Detels, MD, MS
Distinguished Research Professor of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases
Fielding School of Public Health
University of California, Los Angeles

Carl W. Dieffenbach, PhD
Director, Division of AIDS (DAIDS)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health

Daniel C. Douek, MD, PhD
Chief, Genome Analysis Core
Chief, Human Immunology Section
Vaccine Research Center
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health

D. Peter Drotman, MD, MPH
Editor-in-Chief
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Anke A. Ehrhardt, PhD
Director, Division of Gender, Sexuality, & Health
Program for the Study of LGBT Health
Professor, Medical Psychology
New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University

Homayoon Farzadegan, PhD
Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Sarah Fidler, BSc, MBBS, FRCP, PhD*
Professor of HIV and Communicable Diseases
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Disease
Imperial College London

Dianne M. Finkelstein, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Emerita
Massachusetts General Hospital

Gerald Friedland, MD
Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health
Senior Research Scientist, Infectious Diseases
Yale School of Medicine

Christina Gavegnano, PhD*
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
School of Medicine
Emory University

Howard E. Gendelman, MD
Margaret R. Larson Professor of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases
Chair, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience
University of Nebraska Medical Center

Nancy L. Haigwood, PhD
Professor and Director
Oregon National Primate Research Center
Oregon Health & Science University

Alon Herschhorn, PhD*
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine
University of Minnesota

Charles H. Hinkin, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles

David D. Ho, MD
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Clyde ’56 and Helen Wu Professor of Medicine
Director, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center
Columbia University

Ya-Chi Ho, MD, PhD*
Assistant Professor Term
Director of Graduate Studies
Microbiology PhD Program of Biological and Medical Sciences
Yale School of Medicine

Thomas J. Hope, PhD
Professor, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology,
McCormick School of Engineering and
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University

Shiu-Lok Hu, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Department of Pharmaceutics
School of Pharmacy
University of Washington

Nuria Izquierdo-Useros, PhD*
Principal Investigator
Pathogens, Immunity, Signalization and Applied Therapies
IrsiCaixa, Institut de Recerca de la Sida

Richard Jefferys
Basic Science, Vaccines, and Cure Project Director
Treatment Action Group

R. Brad Jones, PhD*
Associate Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Weill Cornell Medicine

Jonathan Karn, PhD*
Professor and Chair
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology
Professor, Department of Biochemistry
School of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University

Mary F. Kearney, PhD*
Deputy Director, HIV Dynamics and Replication Program
Head, Translational Research Section
Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health

Vineet N. KewalRamani, PhD
Head, Model Development Section
Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health

Scott Kitchen, PhD
Professor-in-Residence
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles

Richard S. Kornbluth, MD, PhD
President and Chief Scientific Officer
Multimeric Biotherapeutics, Inc.

Richard Koup, MD
Deputy Director, Vaccine Research Center
Chief, Immunology Laboratory and Immunology Section
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health

Deanna Kulpa, PhD*
Associate Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine

Priti Kumar, PhD*
Associate Professor
Infectious Diseases and of Microbial Pathogenesis
Yale School of Medicine

Nathaniel R. Landau, PhD
Professor
Department of Microbiology
New York University Grossman School of Medicine

Alan L. Landay, PhD
Professor
Departments of Internal Medicine and Microbial Pathogens and Immunity
Vice Chair for Research, Department of Internal Medicine
Chief, Division of Translational and Precision Medicine
Rush University Medical Center

Michael Lederman, MD
Professor of Medicine, Emeritus
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology/Molecular Biology and Biomedical Ethics
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Tun-Hou Lee, DSc
Professor of Virology, Emeritus
Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Michael J. Leibowitz, MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
University of California, Davis

Judy Lieberman, MD, PhD
Endowed Chair, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Boston Children’s Hospital
Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School

Herbert Kim Lyerly, MD
George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Immunology
Professor in Surgery, Immunology, Pathology
Director of the Center of Applied Therapeutics
Member, Duke Cancer Institute
Duke University School of Medicine

David M. Margolis, MD
Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Professor Microbiology and Immunology, and Epidemiology
Director, UNC Cure Center
Department of Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Matthew Marsden, PhD*
Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, and Infectious Diseases
School of Medicine
University of California, Irvine

Kenneth Hugh Mayer, MD
Infectious Disease Attending &
Director of HIV Prevention Research
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Joseph “Mike” McCune, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Head, Frontiers
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Donna Mildvan, MD
Professor of Medicine
Ichan School of Medicine
Mount Sinai

Walther Mothes, PhD*
Paul B. Beeson Professor of MedicineProfessor of Microbial Pathogenesis
Yale University

Patrick Musonda, PhD*
Associate Professor, Medical Statistics
School of Public Health
University of Zambia

Jay A. Nelson, PhD
Professor, VGTI-Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute
School of Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University

David O’Connor, PhD*
Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
The UW Medical Foundation
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Nancy Padian, PhD, MPH
Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology
School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley

Savita Pahwa, MD
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Professor in Pediatrics and Medicine
Director of the Miami Center for AIDS Research
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine

Tristram G. Parslow, MD, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine

Matija Peterlin, MD
Professor Emeritus
Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

Lynn Pulliam, PhD
Professor
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Lee Ratner, MD, PhD
Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Oncology
John T. Milliken Department of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine

Andrew Patrick Rice, PhD
Nancy Chang, PhD Endowed Professorship
Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology
Baylor College of Medicine

Simone Richardson, PhD*
Postdoctoral Fellow
Antibody Immunity Research Unit
National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD)
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Leah Rubin, PhD, MA, MPH*
Professor, Neurology, Molecular & Comparative Pathobiology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Co-Founder/Co-Director, Brain Health Program
Johns Hopkins University

Ruth M. Ruprecht, MD, PhD
Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics
University of Texas San Antonio
Texas Biomedical Research Institute
Department of Biology
University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Rachel Rutishauser, MD, PhD*
Associate Professor, Medicine
School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

Ivan Sadowski, PhD*
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Faculty of Medicine
University of British Columbia

Asier Sáez-Cirión, PhD*
Associate Professor
Head of the Viral Reservoirs and Immune Control Unit
Institut Pasteur

Frederick A. Schmitt, PhD
Professor
Department of Neurology
Sanders Brown Center on Aging
University of Kentucky

Gerald Schochetman, PhD
Senior Director
Diagnostics Research for Strategic and Emerging Markets Initiatives
Abbott Laboratories

Robert T. Schooley, MD
Infectious Disease Specialist
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
University of California, San Diego Health

Janet Siliciano, PhD*
Professor
Department of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University

Pamela J. Skinner, PhD*
Professor
Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
University of Minnesota

Gail Skowron, MD
Adjunct Professor of Medicine
Brown University

Nikunj Somia, PhD*
Associate Professor
Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
University of Minnesota

Leonidas Stamatatos, PhD
Member
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division
Immunology and Vaccine Development Program

Mario Stevenson, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine

Rebecca Veenhuis, PhD*
Assistant Professor of Molecular & Comparative Pathobiology
School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University

David Vlahov, RN, PhD
Professor Emeritus
School of Nursing
University of California, San Francisco

David J. Volsky, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Pathology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Director of Molecular Virology Laboratory
Department of Medicine
Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals

James Voss, PhD*
Institute Investigator
Department of Immunology and Microbiology
Scripps Research

Steven S. Witkin, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Immunology in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Weill Cornell Medical College

Peter R. Wolfe, MD
Associate Clinical Professor
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles

Richard T. Wyatt, PhD
Professor
Department of Immunology and Microbiology
Senior Director, Viral Immunology, IAVI Center for Neutralizing Antibodies
Scripps Research

Jerome Zack, PhD*
Distinguished Professor and Department Chair
Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics
Co-Director, UCLA AIDS Institute
University of California, Los Angeles

Anjie Zhen, PhD*
Assistant Adjunct Professor
School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles