The University of California,San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco,California. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. It conducts research and teaching in medical and biological sciences.
Haile Debas is an Eritrean physician and academic administrator at the University of California,San Francisco.
Peter S. Kim is an American scientist. He was president of Merck Research Laboratories (MRL) 2003–2013 and is currently Virginia &D.K. Ludwig Professor of Biochemistry at Stanford University,Institute Scholar at Stanford ChEM-H,and Lead Investigator of the Infectious Disease Initiative at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub.
Sue Desmond-Hellmann is an American oncologist and biotechnology leader who served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation from 2014–2020. She was previously Chancellor of the University of California,San Francisco (UCSF),the first woman to hold the position,and Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Distinguished Professor,and before that president of product development at Genentech,where she played a role in the development of the first gene-targeted cancer drugs,Avastin and Herceptin.
Eric Goosby is an American public health official,currently serving as the UN Special Envoy on Tuberculosis. Goosby previously served as the United States Global AIDS Coordinator from 2009 until mid-November 2013. In the role,Goosby directed the U.S. strategy for addressing HIV around the world and led President Obama's implementation of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Goosby was sworn in during June 2009 and resigned in November 2013,taking a position as a professor at UCSF,where he directs the Center for Global Health Delivery and Diplomacy,a collaboration between UCSF and the University of California,Berkeley.
Gladstone Institutes is an independent,non-profit biomedical research organization whose focus is to better understand,prevent,treat and cure cardiovascular,viral and neurological conditions such as heart failure,HIV/AIDS and Alzheimer's disease. Its researchers study these diseases using techniques of basic and translational science. Another focus at Gladstone is building on the development of induced pluripotent stem cell technology by one of its investigators,2012 Nobel Laureate Shinya Yamanaka,to improve drug discovery,personalized medicine and tissue regeneration.
Agnes Binagwaho is a Rwandan pediatrician and co-founder and the former vice chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity (2017-2022). In 1996,she returned to Rwanda where she provided clinical care in the public sector as well as held many positions including the position of Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Health of Rwanda from October 2008 until May 2011 and Minister of Health from May 2011 until July 2016. She has been a Professor of Global Health Delivery Practice since 2016 and a Professor of Pediatrics since 2017 at the University of Global Health Equity. She resides in Kigali.
The STEP Study was a Phase IIb clinical trial intended to study the efficacy of an experimental HIV vaccine based on a human adenovirus 5 (HAdV-5) vector. The study was conducted in North and South America,the Caribbean,and Australia. A related study using the same experimental vaccine was conducted simultaneously in South Africa. These trials were co-sponsored by Merck,the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN),and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID),and had an Oversight Committee consisting of representatives from these three organizations. In South Africa the trial was overseen by the South African AIDS Vaccine Initiative.
Paul A. Volberding is an American physician who is best known for his pioneering work in treating people with HIV.
HVTN 505 is a clinical trial testing an HIV vaccine regimen on research participants. The trial is conducted by the HIV Vaccine Trials Network and sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Vaccinations were stopped in April 2013 due to initial results showing that the vaccine was ineffective in preventing HIV infections and lowering viral load among those participants who had become infected with HIV. All study participants will continue to be monitored for safety and any long-term effects.
Arthur J. Ammann was an American pediatric immunologist and advocate known for his research on HIV transmission,discovering in utero transmission and the risk of contaminated transfusions and blood products,and his role in the development of the first successful vaccine to prevent pneumococcal infection in 1977. He founded Global Strategies for HIV Prevention and was Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the UCSF Medical Center.
Leor S. Weinberger is an American virologist and quantitative biologist. He is credited with discovering the HIV virus latency circuit,which provided the first experimental evidence that stochastic fluctuations ('noise') in gene expression are used for cell fate decisions. He has also pioneered the concept of therapeutic interfering particles,or “TIPs”,which are resistance-proof antivirals. His TED talk on this novel antiviral approach 20 years in the making has been called a "highlight" of TED and received a standing ovation from the live audience.
Jay A. Levy,M.D. is an AIDS and cancer research physician. He is a professor of medicine with specialties in virology and immunology at the University of California,San Francisco (UCSF).
Thomas J. Coates is the Director of the multi-campus University of California Global Health Institute,a UC-wide initiative established to improve health and reduce the burden of disease throughout the world. He is Professor Emeritus at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and Founding Director of the UCLA Center for World Health,a joint initiative of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and UCLA Health,He has conducted extensive research in the realm of HIV and is the Michael and Sue Steinberg Endowed Professor of Global AIDS Research within the Division of Infectious Diseases at UCLA and Distinguished Professor of Medicine. Health-related behavior is of particular interest to Coates. Throughout his career as a health expert,his theory-based research has been focused on interventions aimed at reducing risks and threats to health
John S. Greenspan,was an academic dentist/scientist and university administrator. His degrees and diplomas include BSc,BDS,Ph.D.,FRCPath,FDSRCS (Eng). He was the Director-Emeritus of the AIDS Research Institute at the University of California,San Francisco (UCSF). He was also the founding Director of the UCSF AIDS Specimen Bank (1982-2017) and of the UCSF Oral AIDS Center (1986–2005).
Diane Havlir is an American physician who is a Professor of Medicine and Chief of the HIV/AIDS Division at the University of California,San Francisco. Her research considers novel therapeutic strategies to improve the lives of people with HIV and to support public health initiatives in East Africa. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.
Susan Kleppner Folkman is an American psychologist,author,and emerita professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF). She is internationally recognized for her contributions to the field of psychological stress and coping. Her 1984 book Stress,Appraisal and Coping alongside Richard S. Lazarus,is the most widely cited academic book in its field,and the 17th most cited book in social science.
Monica Gandhi is an American physician and professor. She teaches medicine at the University of California,San Francisco (UCSF) and is director of the UCSF Gladstone Center for AIDS Research and the medical director of the San Francisco General Hospital HIV Clinic,Ward 86. Her research considers HIV prevalence in women,as well as HIV treatment and prevention. She has been noted as a critic of some aspects of the COVID-19 lockdowns in the US.
Nancy E. Lane is an American rheumatologist. She is an Endowed Professor of Medicine,Rheumatology,and Aging Research at the University of California,Davis and director of the UC Davis Musculoskeletal Diseases of Aging Research Group. She has also sat on the editorial boards of Nature Reviews Rheumatology,Rheumatology,Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism,Arthritis &Rheumatology, and The Journal of Rheumatology.
Judith Aberg is an American physician who is the George Baehr Professor of Clinical Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital. She was appointed Dean of System Operations for Clinical Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Her research considered infectious diseases,including HIV/AIDS and COVID-19.
