Ragon Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Project Title: Exploiting Highly Networked CTL Epitopes to Achieve a Functional HIV Cure
Award Year: 2020
Biography
Gaurav D. Gaiha, M.D., D.Phil, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Principal Investigator at the Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT and Harvard and Attending Physician in the Division of Gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his D.Phil. at Oxford University as a Clarendon Scholar and his M.D. magna cum laude from the Health Sciences and Technology program at Harvard Medical School and MIT. He subsequently completed his clinical training in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital prior to his post-doctoral research fellowship at the Ragon Institute. His lab’s work is focused on the development of novel T cell-based vaccines for HIV and other infectious diseases by eliciting responses that target epitopes derived from structurally constrained viral regions. He has received numerous honors for his work including the Burroughs Wellcome Career Award for Medical Scientists, Gilead HIV Scholar Award, Krane Award from the MGH Department of Medicine, Howard Goodman Fellowship and Avant-Garde (DP1) award from the National Institute of Drug Abuse.