Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine Research
The major research strengths of the Division of Infectious Diseases and HI(V medicine include basic, translational and clinical research in HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, antimicrobial resistance, infections in the elderly, biodefense and emerging infections. The scientific disciplines involved in this work includes immunology, pathology, host-pathogen interactions and pathogenesis, genetics, pharmacology, biochemistry, microbiology, molecular biology, epidemiology, public health, virology, and clinical trials. There is also significant international research in the Division related to HIV/AIDS and co-infections, sexually transmitted infections, tuberculosis and AIDS-associated malignancies.
At present, 14 faculty in the Division have funding from the National Institutes of Health. In addition there are several major research program projects supporting the research activities in the Division which include the AIDS Clinical Trials Unit (Lederman-PI, Salata-Co-PI, Center for AIDS Research (Lederman-Co-PI), Microbicides Trials Network (Salata-Investigator of record), Oral HIV/AIDS Research Consortium (Salata-Co-PI), Tuberculosis Research Unit (Boom-PI), Phase 1 Clinical Trials Unit for Therapeutics of Emerging Infections (Salata-PI), and Geriatrics Research, Education and Clinical Care Program based at our VA Medical Center (Bonomo-PI).
