Sharon Lewin FRACP, PhD, FAAHMS

Sharon Lewin is an infectious diseases physician and basic scientist. She is Director of The Doherty Institute. Sharon is also Director of the Infectious Diseases Unit at The Alfred; Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Monash University in Melbourne and an NHMRC Practitioner Fellow.

Sharon completed her medical training at Monash University, followed by a PhD in virology at the Burnet Institute in Melbourne and a post-doctoral fellowship at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, The Rockefeller University in New York.

Sharon currently heads a research laboratory that aims to understand why HIV and hepatitis B virus persist and evade the immune system with the goal of finding a cure for HIV.