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Vinayaka R. Prasad

Vinayaka R. Prasad PhD

Immunology and Microbiology
Bronx, New York, United States of America

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Prof. Vinayaka Prasad is an HIV researcher at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. His current research focuses on the replication mechanisms of HIV including how viral determinants exploit beta chemokines to modulate host cell ESCRT factors for increased viral budding and replication fitness, viral determinants of HIV associated neurocognitive disorders and clade differences in HIV replication and pathogenesis.

He is highly active in mentoring early stage investigators through the Einstein-Rockefeller-CUNY Center for AIDS Research (ERC-CFAR) and heads a long-running institutional HIV/AIDS training program focused on pre and post-doctoral trainees. He is an elected member of the American Association of Microbiology and editor of mBio and Scientific Reports.
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