Chief, HIV Immunovirology Section
Education:
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Biography
Dr. Chun received his Ph.D. from the Biochemistry, Cellular, and Molecular Biology Graduate Program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he was the first to discover latently infected CD4+ T cells-now recognized as a major obstacle to viral eradication in people with HIV. In 1997, he joined the Laboratory of Immunoregulation at NIAID as a postdoctoral research fellow to pursue his studies on viral persistence in people with HIV on antiretroviral therapy. In 2001, Dr. Chun was appointed as a staff scientist, and in 2016, he became a tenure track investigator after being selected through the Trans-NIH Earl Stadtman Tenure-Track Program. Dr. Chun received full tenure in 2020.