Lab News

Defechereux

Dr. Patricia Defechereux lead’s the HOPE Community activities as the HOPE Community Engagement Coordinator.

Feschotte

Our group will learn how T cells naturally silence endogenous retroviruses, which are ancient and permanent residents of our genome, to design new HIV repressors.

Cornell University

Gianella

Dr. Gianella is the executive director of the Last Gift Study, and she oversees all procedures related to recruitment, outreach, participant enrollment, and follow up. She is involved in the development of the rapid research autopsy procedures and the creation of lab-based techniques to process blood and tissues in an effort to characterize HIV reservoirs.

University of California – San Diego

Kallas

Dr. Kallas directs the clinical and community engagement efforts for the HOPE Collaboratory in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine

Kibuuka

Dr. Kibuuka brings tremendous clinical trials experience plus HIV cohort study leadership and as a co-investigator, she participates in all procedures related to recruitment, outreach, participant enrollment, and follow up.

Makerere University Walter Reed Project

Kumar

As part of HOPE, Dr. Kumar will direct a research program for targeting nucleic-acid editing/modifying molecules to HIV-infected cells for suppressing viral reactivation and excising provirus and direct studies in humanized mouse models of HIV infection and latency