Joseph J. Eron, MD
Co-Director
Director, CFAR Clinical Core
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
Herman and Louise Smith Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Areas of Interest
Antiretroviral therapy, resistance, pharmacology, transmission and HIV persistence and disruption of latency
About
Dr. Eron is Principal Investigator of the HIV/AIDS Clinical Research Unit at UNC-CH and Director of the Clinical Core for the UNC Center for AIDS Research (CFAR). He has been part of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group since 1993 and has held multiple leadership positions including Chair of the Optimization of ART Committee and the Cure Transformative Science Group. He is the Principal Investigator of the UNC Clinical trials Unit with sites in Chapel Hill, Greensboro, Lilongwe, Malawi and Hanoi, Vietnam. In addition, he is a leader of the UNC Acute HIV Infection research team and a collaborator in the UNC HIV Cure Center. Over the last 15 years, Dr. Eron has led the development of the UNC HIV CFAR clinic cohort that includes over 5,000 HIV infected individuals and has active collaboration and membership in the NA ACCORD and CNICS cohorts. Dr. Eron has over 400 publications in peer-reviewed journals focusing on antiretroviral therapy, resistance, pharmacology, transmission and HIV persistence, and disruption of latency. Recent work has included publications from the UNC-CFAR HIV Clinical Cohort, the ACTG, HPTN and IAS-USA HIV treatment guidelines in JAMA, 2020. Dr. Eron has worked extensively in the area of HIV drug development and led or participated in original studies of many antiretroviral therapies. He also continues as an active HIV infectious disease clinician. He is now the leader of the ACTG Scientific Agenda Steering Committee and is Vice Chair (co-PI) of the ACTG network.
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Undergraduate
Harpur College
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Medical School
Harvard Medical School
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Residency
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
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Fellowship
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School