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Trainers at HIVTRI
 Alan
Landay,
United States
Dr. Alan Landay is Professor and Chairman of the
Department of Immunology/Microbiology at Rush University Medical
Center in Chicago. He has been involved in HIV research for over
25 years having performed some of the first immune evaluations
of HIV infected haemophiliacs in 1982 while completing a postdoctoral
fellowship at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. Dr. Landay
joined the faculty at Rush University Medical Center in 1983 and
helped establish the HIV research program which has grown to encompass
both a basic and clinical focus on immune studies in HIV. Dr. Landay
served as Chair of the National Committee of Clinical Laboratory
Standards Committee on Flow Cytometry which produced the first
national standard on CD4 testing. He has also served as an advisor
to the College of American Pathologists, NIH and WHO on Standardization
of CD4 Testing and serves on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Global Health Care Technologies Committee. Dr. Landay’s current
research focus is on immune pathogenesis and immune based therapy
of HIV disease and he is past Chair of the Immunology Research
Agenda Committee of the AIDS Clinical Trial Group NIH Program and
he has served on the Executive Committee of the Forum for HIV Collaborative
Research. Dr. Landay is Chair of the Office of AIDS Research Panel
on Pathogenesis. He serves on NIH, AmFar, Glazer Pediatric AIDS
Foundation and State of California Grant grant review panels. He
has served as a mentor for over 15 graduate students and postdoctoral
fellows who have gone on to obtain academic positions. Dr. Landay
has published over 250 papers focused on basic and clinical studies
of HIV.
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