- Persistence of viral reservoirs in people with HIV receiving antiretroviral therapy.
- Viral dynamics and immunologic control of viral replication in people with HIV.
- Evaluation of therapeutic strategies aimed at achieving sustained virologic control in people with HIV in the absence of antiretroviral therapy.
- Development of novel treatments for people with HIV who harbor multidrug- or pan-resistant viruses and have limited clinical options
Tae-Wook Chun, Ph.D.
Chief, HIV Immunovirology Section
Education:
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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...
Jana Blazkova, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist, HIV Immunovirology Section
Education:
Ph.D., Mediterranean University of Aix-Marseille II, France
Dr. Blazkova received her Ph.D. in Immunology at the Mediterranean University of Aix-Marseille II, France in 2006. She conducted postdoctoral in Prague, and in 2010, joined NIAID as a Visiting Fellow. In 2015, she worked at Sidra Medical and Research Center, Doha, Qatar, for one year as a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2016, Dr. Blazkova returned to the NIAID and was appointed as a Staff Scientist in the HIV Immunovirology section, LIR.
J. Shawn Justement, B.S.
Senior Research Assistant
Education:
B.S., Old Dominion University
Adeline B. Sewack
Postbaccalaureate Fellow, Intramural Research Training Awards Program
Education:
B.S., Carnegie Mellon University
Victoria Shi, M.S.
Senior Research Assistant
Education:
M.S., Rutgers University
