Chun Research Group

HIV Immunovirology Section

Persistence of viral reservoirs in HIV-infected individuals receiving antiretroviral therapy.
Viral dynamics and immunologic control of HIV replication in infected individuals.
Development of therapeutic strategies aimed at achieving sustained virologic control in HIV-infected individuals in the absence of antiretroviral therapy.

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 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where he the first to discover latently infected, resting CD4+ T cells in HIV-infected individuals. In 1997, he was recruited by Dr. Anthony Fauci in the Laboratory of Immunoregulation at NIAID to pursue his studies on HIV persistence in infected...

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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.

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