HIV-AIDS

Catherine Bollard, MD, associate center director for translational research and innovation at GW Cancer Center, was quoted by Interesting Engineering in an article about her recent study looking at the safety of a cell therapy involving expanding T-cells against HIV.

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce that Michael I. Bukrinsky, MD, PhD, will serve as interim chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine.

Fred M. Gordin, MD, professor of medicine and senior scientist of clinical and population sciences at the District of Columbia Center for AIDS Research, passed away at age 66 after a four-year battle with lung cancer. 

First-year students at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) gathered in the Marvin Center in mid-December to learn about, and make their mark on, the national HIV/AIDS strategy in the United States.

Gary Simon, MD, PhD, Walter G. Ross Professor of Clinical Research, spoke to CNN for an article about a recent study that came out suggesting fewer young people get tested for HIV than older people.

A research team led by Brad Jones, PhD, from GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences found that HIV-infected cells are resistant to CD8+ T-cells. The research was published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

GW researcher received an almost $2 million grant to study the body's natural defenses against HIV in order to drive development of better vaccines and therapies.

Catherine Bollard, MD, professor of pediatrics and microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, was quoted in a Fred Hutch article about the Conference on Cell and Gene Therapy for HIV Cure.

Mathilde "Matty" Knight, PhD, adjunct professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine at GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences was on the research team that found a genome in the Biomphalaria snail that may explain why the snail is a prime transmitter for the parasite, Schistosoma…

Brad Jones, Ph.D., assistant professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, published research in Cell Host & Microbe finding defective HIV proviruses, long thought to be harmless, produce viral proteins and distract the immune system from killing intact proviruses needed to…