Ronald C. Desrosiers, PhD, previously served as Director of Harvard’s primate research center and is currently tenured Professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Since his publication of the discovery of SIV in 1985, he has contributed to a better understanding of the relative importance and functional contribution of the so-called “non-essential” genes, of envelope protein structure/function relationships, and of antibody-mediated virus neutralization. He has studied a variety of approaches toward a preventive vaccine against HIV/AIDS and continues to be a strong advocate for the importance of discovery research toward this goal.
