Douglas Daniel Richman AB, MD

Dr Douglas Richman received his A.B. from Dartmouth College and went on to receive his M.D. at Stanford University where he completed his residency. He was a Research Associate in the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases at the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Clinical Fellow in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Hospital and Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Harvard. Dr Richman joined the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 1976 and is currently Professor of Pathology and Medicine, and holds the Florence Seeley Riford Chair in AIDS Research. He is Director of the Center for AIDS Research at UCSD and of the Research Center for AIDS and HIV Infections at the San Diego VA Healthcare System where he attends in infectious diseases and is Chief and Director of the Clinical Virology Laboratory.

He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Association of Physicians, the American Clinical and Climatological Association, and the Infectious Disease Society of America. He is a member of the NIH AIDS Vaccine Research Committee. He has focused his investigation on HIV disease and pathogenesis for the past 20 years. His laboratory was the first to identify HIV drug resistance. The lab joined two others in identifying latently infected CD4 cells as the obstacle to eradication of HIV with potent antiretroviral therapy.