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Doug Nixon, MD, PhD

co-Director Research Focus 1

Doug Nixon, MD, PhD

co-Director Research Focus 1

Dr. Doug Nixon is the chair of the scientific advisory board of the Scripps Research Institute’s CHAVD HIV vaccine program, and past chair of the NIH’s AIDS Vaccine Research Subcommittee. He is an NIH MERIT award recipient, and the co-Principal Investigator of the $28 million NIH’s Martin Delaney Collaboratory for HIV Cure grant, “BELIEVE.” He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and of the National Institute of Inventors, and elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation. His group will be working closely with Cedric Feschotte and his team to learn how HERVs may give clues to locking HIV.