TEMPLE/DREXEL INTERDISCIPLINARY AND TRANSLATIONAL NEUROAIDS RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAM

Training Faculty

Temple Faculty

• Shohreh Amini, PhD, HIV-1 and cellular factors regulating transcription
• Nae Dunn, PhD, Neuronal signaling/calcium channels
• Toby Eisenstein, PhD, Interaction of drugs of abuse with the immune system
• Tracy Fischer-Smith, PhD, Clinical NeuroAIDS pathogenesis and biomarkers
• Jennifer Gordon, PhD, Gene expression in transgenic and knockout mice
• Kamel Khalili, PhD, In vitro molecular studies – HIV and JCV gene expression
• Dianne T. Langford, PhD, Mechanisms of neuroinjury and protection
• Jay Rappaport, PhD, Viral genetics/cellular trafficking in NeuroAIDS
• Thomas Rogers, PhD, G protein coupled receptors in NeuroAIDS
• Mahmut Safak, PhD, JCV gene expression
• Ellen Tedaldi, MD, HIV clinical trials
  

Drexel Faculty

• Peter Baas, PhD, HIV-1 proteins and neuronal injury
• Irwin Chaiken, PhD, Molecular therapeutics and HIV-1 gp120 coreceptor interactions
• Jeffrey Jacobson, MD, HIV clinical trials
• Steven Jennings, PhD, CTL function and control of virus infection
• Peter Katsikis, PhD, Genetic variation and HIV/SIV immune escape
• Fred Krebs, PhD, Inhibition of HIV-1 receptor/coreceptor interactions
• Peter Lelkes, PhD, Tissue engineering of the blood-brain barrier
• Julio Martin-Garcia, PhD, HIV-1 gp120 and microglial/macrophage infection
• Olimpia Meucci, PhD, Neuronal injury and protection in NeuroAIDS
• Brian Wigdahl, PhD, Impact of genetic variation on HIV transcription and disease