Priti Kumar, PhD
Priti Kumar, PhD
Dr. Priti Kumar is an Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases at Yale University School of Medicine. Her laboratory conducts translational research with a focus on treatment of diseases caused by RNA viruses. She made key contributions towards the development and testing of gene therapy and cure based approaches that overcome in vivo biological barriers to enable the use of next-generation biologicals. Her laboratory is well-recognized for studies on HIV-1 in state-of-the-art humanized mouse models that allow characterization of virus pathogenesis in the context of a human immune system. As part of HOPE she will direct a research program for targeting nucleic-acid editing/modifying molecules to HIV-infected cells and direct studies in humanized mouse models of HIV infection and latency