NIH
MHRP Collaborator
Dr. Adam Capoferri is a postdoctoral fellow at the National Cancer Institute under Dr. Mary Kearney in the HIV Dynamics and Replication Program’s Translational Research Section. He received his B.S. in Biochemistry from Ithaca College and Ph.D. from the NIH-Georgetown University graduate partnership program in Microbiology and Immunology. His undergraduate research focused on an evolutionary reconstruction of a neotropical genus of plants. He then went on to do research at Johns Hopkins University under Dr. Robert Siliciano studying mechanisms for the persistence of the HIV latent reservoir. He completed a post-bac at the UMass Chan Medical School under Dr. Trudy Morrison in the development of a VLP-based vaccine for RSV. He returned to Johns Hopkins under Dr. Tom Quinn to characterize sex-based differences in the HIV reservoir from individuals from Rakai, Uganda, as well as performed HIV recombination analyses for the PANGEA consortium. As a virologist, his research interests include exploring mechanisms of HIV persistence including natural virologic control, evolution, and genetics.