CLINICAL HIV AND AIDS JOURNAL (ISSN:2633-5476)

Biography:

Brian Wigdahl, Ph.D., is professor and chair of Microbiology and Immunology, also director of the Institute for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Disease, and director of the Institute’s Center for Molecular Virology and Translational Neuroscience at the Drexel University College of Medicine. Being an internationally recognized molecular virologist, Dr. Wigdahl focuses his immediate research on the molecular mechanisms, treatment, and prevention of immunologic abnormalities, cancer, and progressive neurologic disorders caused by members of the retrovirus and herpesvirus families. He has a total of more than 200 published or in press peer-reviewed publications. He is currently the executive director of the Ph.D./MS program in Molecular Medicine and six MS graduate programs including Infectious Disease, Immunology, Biomedicine and Business, Biomedicine and Law, Biomedicine and Entrepreneurship, and Biomedicine and Digital Design at Drexel.

Research Interests:

• Immunopathogenesis and neuropathogenesis of HIV-1 and HTLV-I infection
• Transcriptional regulation of retroviral expression
• Viral sequence diversity and correlations to disease
• Development of microbicidal agents