Irini Sereti, M.D., M.H.S.
Irini Sereti, M.D., M.H.S.
Dr. Sereti is the Chief of the HIV Pathogenesis Section in the Laboratory of Immunoregulation at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). She received her Medical Degree at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece and did her Internal Medicine residency and Chief residency at Northwestern University in Chicago. She completed an MHS from Duke University and her Infectious Diseases fellowship at NIAID and stayed at NIAID as a clinical investigator receiving tenure in 2015. Her group focuses on studies of HIV-associated inflammation and Idiopathic CD4 lymphopenia along with some work on COVID pathogenesis, in both the clinic and the laboratory. She is a physician-scientist who has conducted multiple clinical trials and has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers. Dr Sereti is an ELUM fellow and is an Associate Editors of the Journal of Infectious Diseases on her personal time. She is also a member of the Executive committees of the NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholars program and the NIH Women Scientists Advisors. She is passionate about translational research with excellence in patient care, mentorship, and promotion of women in biomedical sciences.