James B. Whitney PhD

Dr. James B. Whitney received his Ph.D. in Virology from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He did his post-doctoral training at The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School where he studied viral transmission and evolutionary dynamics in the setting of T cell vaccination. He is the Principal Investigator of the Viral Dynamics laboratory at the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at the BIDMC.

His laboratory focuses on viral dynamics, emerging viral diseases and eradication strategies for the the HIV-1/SIV viral reservoir. In collaboration with Industry partners, he is evaluating a number of pre-clinical therapeutic modalities to reduce the HIV-1 reservoir burden and impact Zika infection.