amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research

SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS

(as of September 30, 2019)

*Adjunct Member

Mohamed Abdel-Mohsen, Ph.D.*
Assistant Professor
Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center
The Wistar Institute

Maria Luisa Alcaide, M.D.*
Associate Professor of Clinical Infectious Diseases
Miller School of Medicine
University of Miami

Galit Alter, Ph.D.*
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard

Jintanat Ananworanich, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Director for Therapeutics Research
US Military HIV Research Program

Judith Auerbach, Ph.D.*
Professor of Medicine
School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

Alberto Bosque, Ph.D.*
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine
The George Washington University

Jason Brenchley, Ph.D.*
Senior Investigator
Immunopathogenesis Section
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health

Dennis R. Burton, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Immunology
The Scripps Research Institute

Salvatore T. Butera, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Chief Science Officer
Scripps CHAVI-ID
The Scripps Research Institute

Edward Campbell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
School of Medicine
Loyola University at Chicago

Alex Carballo-Dieguez, Ph.D.
Co-Director and Senior Research Scientist
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies
New York State Psychiatric Institute
Columbia University

Amy Chung, Ph.D.*
Laboratory Head
University of Melbourne

David B. Clifford, M.D.
Professor
Department of Neurology
Washington University School of Medicine

C. Budd Colby, Ph.D.
Principal
Colby Biomedical Ventures

Grant Colfax, M.D.
Director
Marin Health and Human Services
San Rafael, California

Deborah Jean Cotton, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine

Bryan R. Cullen, Ph.D., D.Sc.
James B. Duke Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics and
Microbiology
Director, Duke University Center for Virology
Duke University Medical Center

Susanna Cunningham-Rundles, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita of Research Immunology
Department of Pediatrics
Weill Cornell Medical College

Richard Thomas D’Aquila, M.D.
The Howard Taylor Ricketts Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
Director, Northwestern HIV Translational Research Center
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University

Bruno De Geest, Ph.D.
Chemical Engineer
Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Technology
Ghent University Hospital

Sherry Deren, Ph.D.
Co-Director
Center for Drug Use and HIV Research
New York University College of Nursing

Roger Detels, M.D., M.S.
Professor of Epidemiology
School of Public Health
University of California, Los Angeles

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

Ivan D’Orso, Ph.D.*
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology
University of Texas Southwestern

Daniel C. Douek, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Human Immunology Section
Vaccine Research Center
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health

D. Peter Drotman, M.D., M.P.H.
Editor-in-Chief
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Anke A. Ehrhardt, Ph.D.
Director
Division of Gender, Sexuality, & Health
Program for the Study of LGBT Health
NYS Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University

Homayoon Farzadegan, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Dianne M. Finkelstein, Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics
Harvard School of Public Health
Director of the Cancer Center Biostatics
Massachusetts General Hospital

Andrés Finzi, Ph.D.*
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Université de Montréal, Centre de Recherche du CHUM

Gerald Herbert Friedland, M.D.
Professor and Director
AIDS Care Program
Department of Internal Medicine
Yale School of Medicine

Howard E. Gendelman, M.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience
Margaret R. Larson Professor of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases
Director, Center for Neurodegenerative Disorders
University of Nebraska Medical Center

Sara Gianella Weibel, M.D.*
Assistant Professor of Medicine
CFAR - Center for AIDS Research
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
University of California, San Diego

Nancy L. Haigwood, Ph.D.
Director and Senior Scientist
Division of Pathobiology and Immunology
Oregon National Primate Research Center
Oregon Health and Science University

Andrew Henderson, Ph.D.*
Associate Professor
School of Medicine
Boston University

Alon Herschhorn, Ph.D.*
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine
University of Minnesota

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

David Ho, M.D.
Scientific Director, Chief Executive Officer
Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center

Ya-Chi Ho, M.D., Ph.D. *
Assistant Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and Medicine
Microbial Pathogenesis
Yale University

Thomas J. Hope, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University

Shiu-Lok Hu, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Pharmacy
University of Washington

Moses Joloba, MBChB, MS and Ph.D.*
Associate Professor
College of Health Sciences, Department of Medical Microbiology
Makerere University
School of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University

R. Brad Jones, Ph.D.*
Assistant Professor of Immunology in Medicine
Graduate School of Medical Sciences
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Edward Kankaka, MBChB, MPH*
Rakai Health Sciences Program

Jonathan Karn, Ph.D.*
Director
Center for AIDS Research
Case Western Reserve University

Vineet KewalRamani, Ph.D.
Chief, Model Development Section
HIV Drug Resistance Program
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health

Scott Kitchen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Hematology and Oncology
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles

Richard Kornbluth, M.D., Ph.D.
President and Chief Scientific Officer
Multimeric Biotherapeutics, Inc.

Richard A. Koup, M.D.
Deputy Director, Vaccine Research Center
Chief, Immunology Laboratory
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health

Nathaniel R. Landau, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Microbiology
New York University School of Medicine

Alan L. Landay, Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman
Department of Immunology and Microbiology
Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center

Michael Lederman, M.D.
Scott R. Inkley Professor of Medicine
Associate Director, Center for AIDS Research
Case Western Reserve University

Tun-Hou Lee, D.Sc.
Professor of Virology, Emeritus
Department of Immunology and Infectious
Diseases
Harvard School of Public Health

Michael J. Leibowitz, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Medical Microbiology and Immunology
University of California, Davis

Robert J. Levine, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS
Yale University

Judy Lieberman, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Investigator
Immune Disease Institute
Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School

Manuel Llano, M.D., Ph.D.*
Assistant Professor
University of Texas at El Paso

H. Kim Lyerly, M.D.
Professor in Surgery, Immunology, Pathology
George Barth Geller Chair of Cancer Research
Director of the Center of Applied Therapeutics
Duke Cancer Institute
Duke University Medical Center

Frank Maldarelli, M.D., Ph.D.
Investigator
HIV DRP Host-Virus Interaction Branch
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health

David M. Margolis, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, and Epidemiology
School of Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Martin H. Markowitz, M.D.
Professor and Clinical Director
Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center

Kenneth Hugh Mayer, M.D.
Infectious Disease Attending & Director of HIV Prevention Research
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Medical Research Director, Co-Chair
The Fenway Institute/Fenway Health

Joseph M. McCune, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

Donna Mildvan, M.D.
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
Department of Medicine
Beth Israel Medical Center

Godwin Nchinda, Ph.D.*
Professor
Senior Immunlologist
Head of Vaccinology/Biobanking laboratory
Deputy Director General CIRCB
Chantal Biya International Reference Center for Research on the Prevention and Management HIV/AIDS

Jay A. Nelson, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health and Science University

Nancy Padian, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology
School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley

Savita Pahwa, M.D.
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, M.D., Ph.D.
William Patterson Timmie Professor and Chair
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine

Matija Peterlin, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology
Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

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

Reena Rajasuriar, Ph.D.*
Pharmacy Lecturer
University of Malaya

Lee Ratner, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine

Andrew Rice, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology
Baylor College of Medicine

Nadia Roan, Ph.D.*
Associate Professor
Department of Urology
University of California, San Francisco

Melissa Robbiani, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist and Director of Biomedical HIV Research
Center for Biomedical Research
Population Council

Ruth M. Ruprecht, M.D., Ph.D.
Scientist, Department of Virology and Immunology
Southwest National Primate Research Center
Director, Texas Biomed AIDS Research Program
Texas Biomedical Research Institute

Joshua Schiffer, M.D.*
Associate Member
Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division
Associate Member
Clinical Research Division
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Frederick A. Schmitt, Ph.D.
Professor
Departments of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Psychology and Behavioral Science
Sanders Brown Center on Aging
University of Kentucky

Gerald Schochetman, Ph.D.
Senior Director
Diagnostics Research
Abbott Laboratories

Alex Sigal, Ph.D.*
Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI)

Viviana Simon, M.D., Ph.D.*
Professor
Department of Microbiology
Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Gail Skowron, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine

Leonidas Stamatatos, Ph.D.
Member
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division
Immunology and Vaccine Development Program

Spyridon Stavrou, Ph.D.*
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
State University of New York at Buffalo

Kathryn Stephenson, M.D.*
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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

Lydie Trautmann, Eng.D., Ph.D.*
Chief
Cellular Immunology Section
U.S. Military HIV Research Program

Barbara Visscher, M.D., Dr.P.H.
Professor of Epidemiology
University of California, Los Angeles

David Vlahov, Ph.D., R.N.
Professor of Nursing,
Epidemiology, and Biostatistics
University of California, San Francisco

David J. Volsky, Ph.D.
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

Misaki Wayengera, MBChB., MSc Immunology, Ph.D.*
Department of Pathology
College of Health Sciences
Makerere University

Steven S. Witkin, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunology
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Weill Cornell Medical College

Peter R. Wolfe, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Sub-Investigator
Ruane Clinical Research

Kim Woodrow, Ph.D.*
Associate Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of Washington

Richard T. Wyatt, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunology
IAVI Center for Neutralizing Antibodies
The Scripps Research Institute