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Angela Amedee, PhD
School of
/ Alcohol and Drug Abuse Center of Excellence
Grant Review Committees Served on: NIH

Primary Research / Clinical / Teaching Interests:
	Alcohol Use and HIV Disease Progression HIV HIV Infections RNA Virus Infections Simian immunodeficiency virus Viral Load Virology Virus Diseases
Secondary Research / Clinical / Teaching Interests:
	HIV infection in Pregnant Women Mother to Infant Transmission of HIV

Unique Techniques Used or Developed:
	Quantitative RT-PCR
Unique Equipment Used:
	Droplet Digital PCR
Keywords Associated with Work:
	AIDS Alcohol and Drug Abuse HIV HIV Infection in Women HIV Pathogenesis HIV Transmission Macaque Mucosal Simian immunodeficiency virus Viral Load

Last Updated: 10/26/2018

Andrea LaPlante, PhD
School of Medicine
Psychiatry

Primary Research / Clinical / Teaching Interests:
	Alcohol-Related Disorders Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, Cognitive Disorders HIV HIV-1 HIV-2 Neuropsychological Tests





Keywords Associated with Work:
	HIV Mental Health

Last Updated: 08/17/2017

Robert Maupin, MD
School of Medicine
Minority Affairs

Primary Research / Clinical / Teaching Interests:
	HIV Perinatology
Secondary Research / Clinical / Teaching Interests:
	Infant Mortality





Keywords Associated with Work:
	HIV Infections Perinatal Care

Last Updated: 01/24/2017

Francesca Peruzzi, PhD
School of Medicine
Internal Medicine - Hematology & Oncology / Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center of Excellence

Unique Techniques Used or Developed:
	Isolation and culture of primary rodent neuronal cells


Keywords Associated with Work:
	Brain Damage, Chronic HIV-1 MicroRNAs

Last Updated: 01/24/2017

Krzysztof Reiss, Department of Interdisciplinary Oncology
School of
School of Medicine
/ Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center of Excellence
Grant Review Committees Served on: NIH Other Committees

Primary Research / Clinical / Teaching Interests:
	Cell Biology Insulin-like growth factor I Receptor (IGF-IR) signaling system, Human polyomavirus JC, Homologous recombination directed DNA repair (HRR), Non-homologous end joining (NHEJ), Medulloblastoma and Glioblastoma.
Secondary Research / Clinical / Teaching Interests:
	HIV HIV associated dementia and neuroprotection

Unique Techniques Used or Developed:
	DNA damage/DNA repair assays, Cell motility/invasiveness assays, Brain tumor animal models.
Unique Equipment Used:
	Automated comet assay system (Loats Associates Inc); Nucleoporator (Amaxa); EasyCyte 8HT flow Flow Cytomentry System (Millipore); Synergy 2 multi-detection microplate reader (BioTek).....HPLC, confocal microscopy,
Keywords Associated with Work:
	Cell Signaling, DNA damage, DNA repair, Oncogenic viruses, Brain tumors.National Cancer Institute (U.S.)

Last Updated: 04/25/2024

Lauren Richey, MD, MPH, FIDSA
School of Medicine
Internal Medicine - HIV / Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease

Primary Research / Clinical / Teaching Interests:
	Continuum of Care HIV Related Quality of Care Primary HIV Care
Secondary Research / Clinical / Teaching Interests:
	Hepatitis C HIV and Comorbidities





Keywords Associated with Work:
	HIV Linkage to Care Quality of Health Care Retention in Care

Last Updated: 04/09/2024

Edward Trapido, ScD
School of Public Health
Public Health Deans Office
Grant Review Committees Served on: NIH Other Committees

Primary Research / Clinical / Teaching Interests:
	National Cancer Institute (U.S.)





Keywords Associated with Work:
	Early Detection of Cancer Environment and Public Health Epidemiology Health Status Disparities HIV Substance Abuse, Intravenous Tobacco Use Cessation World Health

Last Updated: 01/31/2017

For Yue Tso, PhD
School of





Keywords Associated with Work:
	HIV KSHV Vaccine viral oncology viral reservoirs

Last Updated: 04/02/2024

David Welsh, MD
School of Medicine
Internal Medicine - Pulmonary/Critical Care

Primary Research / Clinical / Teaching Interests:
	Aging HIV Immune System Lung Diseases Microbiota
Secondary Research / Clinical / Teaching Interests:
	Alcohol Drinking

Unique Techniques Used or Developed:
	16S rDNA Deep Sequencing and Phylogenetic Analysis
Unique Equipment Used:
	Illumina MiSeq

Last Updated: 04/09/2024

Charles Wood, PhD
School of
School of Medicine
/ Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center of Excellence
Grant Review Committees Served on: NIH Other Committees

Primary Research / Clinical / Teaching Interests:
	Viral Oncology
Secondary Research / Clinical / Teaching Interests:
	Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical

Unique Techniques Used or Developed:
	Genomics Immunogical Assays Molecular Genetics


Keywords Associated with Work:
	Herpesvirus 8, Human HIV HIV Associated Malignancies Kaposi Sarcoma

Last Updated: 03/27/2024

Tat Yau, MD
School of Medicine
Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease

Primary Research / Clinical / Teaching Interests:
	HIV Physicians, Primary Care





Keywords Associated with Work:
	Bone Diseases, Infectious HIV Infectious Disease Medicine

Last Updated: 04/14/2024