Institute for Molecular Medicine & Infectious Disease NIMH NeuroHIV Training Grant Training Faculty Drexel University College of Medicine Peter Baas, PhD Research interests: Microtubules in the nervous system Jacqueline Barker, PhD Research interests: Behavioral flexibility, learning/memory, frontal cortex Irwin Chaiken, PhD Research interests: HIV-1 Env entry, Inactivation of HIV and infected cells Peter J. Gaskill, PhD Research interests: Impact of Dopamine on Development of NeuroHIV Elias El Haddad, PhD Research interests: HIV Pooja Jain, PhD Research interests: DC-based immunotherapeutics, neuroinflammation Sandhya Kortagere, PhD Research interests: Dopamine receptors and neurocognitive impairment Michele Kutzler, PhD Research interests: DNA Vaccines Julio Martin-Garcia, PhD Research interests: Macrophage and microglia tropism of HIV-1 Olimpia Meucci, MD, PhD Research interests: NeuroHIV and drug abuse Sonia Navas-Martin, PhD Research interests: Innate immunity in CNS injury and disease Michael Nonnemacher, PhD Research interests: HIV genetic variation and Tat in NeuroHIV Brian Wigdahl, PhD Research interests: HIV genetic variation, CRISPR/Cas9, CNS therapeutics Temple University Shohreh Amini, PhD Research interests: Cellular metabolic pathways HIV-1 induced neuroinflammation Mary Barbe, PhD Research interests: Behavioral testing of HIV animal models Tricia Burdo, PhD Research interests: NeuroHIV; nonhuman primate models; HIV CVD Jason Chein, PhD Research interests: Structural brain imaging Glenn Gerhard, MD* Research interests: Genomics of complex disorders Jennifer Gordon, PhD Research interests: Small animal models of neuroHIV Wenzhe Ho, MPH, MD* Research interests: Host cell innate immunity & viral infections (HIV &HCV) Rafal Kaminski, PhD Research interests: HIV, gene editing, DNA repair Kamel Khalili, PhD Research interests: HIV eradication/viral neuropathogenesis Dianne Langford, PhD Research interests: Neurodegeneration Safak Mahmut, PhD Research interests: Molecular biology of villa demyelination Ilker Sariyer, PhD, VMD Research interests: NeuroHIV George Smith, PhD Research interests: Spinal cord regeneration; gene therapy Hassen Wollebo, PhD Research interests: JCV and its associated neurological disorders * Physician's practice/location is independent of Drexel Medicine and Drexel University. Back to Top