Chief, HIV Immunovirology Section
Education:
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Biography
Dr. Chun received his Ph.D. from the Biochemistry, Cellular, and Molecular Biology Graduate Program from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where he the first to discover latently infected, resting CD4+ T cells in HIV-infected individuals. In 1997, he was recruited by Dr. Anthony Fauci in the Laboratory of Immunoregulation at NIAID to pursue his studies on HIV persistence in infected individuals receiving antiretroviral therapy as a post-doctoral research fellow. In 2001, Dr. Chun was appointed to the position of staff scientist and, in 2016, he became a tenure track investigator after being selected from the Trans-NIH Earl Stadtman Tenure-Track Program. Dr. Chun received full tenure in 2020.