MHRP Collaborator
Director, Basic Sciences Program
Division of AIDS, NIAID, NIH
As Director of the Basic Sciences Program (BSP) at the Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has responsibilities that include oversight of an extensive global HIV/AIDS research portfolio with grants and contracts in structural biology, basic science, pathogenesis, targeted interventions, cure and epidemiology. Over the past decade, the BSP has greatly expanded research towards HIV cure, including work on how and where HIV persists and how the virus can be eliminated or controlled. In the area of HIV epidemiology, BSP has also taken a lead role for the National Institutes of Health in guiding research towards the Department of Health and Human Services proposed “Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America,” a 10-year plan to reduce new HIV infections in the United States.