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Ron Swanstrom, PhD

Co-Director, UNC Center For AIDS Research

Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

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22-006 Lineberger Cancer Center
CB# 7295
Chapel Hill, NC 27599

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Ron Swanstrom, PhD

Co-Director, UNC Center For AIDS Research

Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

Areas of Interest

HIV molecular biology, Viral replication, Resistance to protease inhibitors, Latency, NeuroHIV, HIV evolution, Mutagenic nucleosides, Lethal mutagenesis

About

We often collaborate with clinical scientists who work in international settings to study samples provided by people with HIV. We typically sequence viral RNA and/or DNA to study replicating viral populations or latent viral populations. This work covers topics in drug resistance, recency of infection, viral evolution, and the formation of latency.

Awards and Honors

  • ACS Junior Faculty Award, (1986-1988)
  • Elected AAAS Fellow, (2001)
  • NIH MERIT Award, (2005)
  • Elected Amer. Acad. of Microbiol, (2014)
  • Hyman L. Battle Distinguished Cancer Research Award, (2021)

Memberships

  • Fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology

In the news

  • CFAR-25Years

    IAMIGHID: A Community With a Fierce Commitment to Ending HIV Turns 25

    The UNC Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) is an engine for funding HIV research, supported by a competitive NIH P30 infrastructure grant that has been successfully renewed since 1998. It is also a consortium of three complementary institutions (UNC, RTI and FHI) as CFAR Director Ron Swanstrom, PhD, and Associate Director Prema Menezes, PhD, PA-C, … Read more

  • Undergraduate

    University of California, Irvine

  • PhD

    University of California, Irvine