Training Program in HIV Pathogenesis, Vaccination, and Cure

Training Sites

  • University of Pennsylvania Schools of Medicine, Dental Medicine and Engineering and Applied Science
  • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
  • Wistar Institute

 

 

This NIH-funded Training Grant supports both predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows. Trainees can work for any one of 21 well established investigators who together form a highly interactive and dynamic group of scientists with a broad range of skills. The trainers hold numerous joint R01 and P01 research grants, and there are many joint lab meetings and seminars. Training for students is supplemented by course work as well as the seminar series and retreats organized by the various graduate groups. Postdoctoral fellows may take seminar courses if they wish. All trainers have active research programs in the general area of HIV pathogenesis ranging from studies on virus entry, tropism, neuropathogenesis, the use of entry inhibitors and other antiviral agents, and the immune response to virus infection. Both pre and postdoctoral trainees will present their work at least once a year at the Tuesday noon seminar series attended by virologists throughout the campus. Information about individual investigators can be found either in their personal web pages or at Perelman School of Medicine Research website.

To be trainees on this grant students must be admitted to candidacy for the PhD degree through the biomedical graduate studies program at the University of Pennsylvania. Inquiries and requests for application forms can be sent to:

BIOMEDICAL GRADUATE STUDIES
240 John Morgan Building
37th & Hamilton Walk Philadelphia, PA 19104-6064
Telephone: (215) 898-1030 FAX: (215) 898-2671
E-mail: bgs@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Trainers

  • Mohamed Abdel-Mohsen, PhD, Wistar Institute
  • David Allman, PhD, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine
  • Katherine Bar, PhD, Medicine, School of Medicine
  • Michael Betts, PhD, Microbiology, School of Medicine
  • Frederic Bushman, PhD, Microbiology, School of Medicine
  • Ronald Collman, MD, Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine
  • Laurence Eisenlohr, VMD, PhD, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine
  • Amelia Escolano, PhD, Wistar Institute
  • Joseph Fraietta, PhD, Microbiology, School of Medicine
  • Beatrice Hahn, MD, Medicine, School of Medicine
  • Christopher Hunter, PhD, Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine
  • Kelly Jordan-Scuitto, PhD, Basic & Translational Sciences, School of Dental Medicine
  • Dennis Kolson, MD, Neurology, School of Medicine
  • Daniel Kulp, PhD, Medicine, Wistar Institute
  • Michela Locci, PhD, Microbiology, School of Medicine
  • Michael Mitchell, PhD, Department of Bioengineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science
  • Luis Montaner, DVM, DPhil, Wistar Institute
  • Una O'Doherty, MD, PhD, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine
  • James Riley, PhD, Microbiology, School of Medicine
  • George Shaw, MD, PhD, Medicine, School of Medicine
  • Greg Van Duyne, PhD, Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine
  • David Weiner, PhD, Wistar
  • Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine
  • John Wherry, PhD, SPATT, School of Medicine

Interested candidates can contact individual trainers directly.