Virology and HIV

Virology research at UVA utilizes a number of approaches, including immunology, cell biology, structural biology and cancer biology, to study viruses that include influenza, hepatitis C, Ebola, dengue, KSHV and HIV.

Much of the basic research in HIV is conducted at the Myles H. Thaler Center for AIDS and Human Retrovirus Research, a community of infectious disease and immunology experts that ranks among the best in the nation. Researchers address fundamental questions about how HIV replicates at the cellular and molecular level, and how AIDS develops.

Burgess, Stacey L.

Understanding how exposures in the intestine can influence the broader immune system.

Engel, Daniel A.

Drug Discovery and Molecular Biology of Pathogenic RNA viruses: Ebola, SARS-CoV-2, Influenza and Zika

Hahn, Young S.

Immune regulation for HCV infection and chronic liver inflammation

Hammarskjöld, Marie-Louise

Post Transcriptional Gene Regulation and the Molecular Biology of Human Retroviruses

Jackson, Patrick E.

HIV virology

Kasson, Peter M.

Physical mechanisms of infectious disease; influenza infection; membrane fusion; antibiotic resistance; molecular dynamics simulation; machine learning.

Kedes, Dean H.

Human Herpes virus associated with malignancy, including Kaposi's Sarcoma

Mann, Barbara J.

SARS CoV-2 Vaccines and Therapeutics; Pathogenicity of Francisella tularensis and vaccines

Petri, William A.

Immune mechanisms of defense against COVID-19 and enteric (diarrheal) infections

Rekosh, David M.

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Gene Expression; Human Endogenous Viruses; SARS-CoV-2 Protein Trafficking; Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation