MD, PhD
Professor
UNC-Chapel Hill
Virology
Area of interest
My research is focused on the development of lentiviral vectors for gene therapy applications and as a means to study HIV-1 biology. We put emphasis on improving the efficacy and safety of lentiviral vectors. Specifically, we seek to minimize adverse effects associated with lentiviral vector transduction including, insertional mutagenesis and vector mobilization. To this end we develop integration deficient vectors as well as vector carrying expression cassettes in opposite orientation. To facilitate vector production we develop stable packaging cell lines. To personalize gene delivery by lentiviral vectors, we employ the collaborative cross mouse strains panel to identify host factors that affect the efficacy and safety of lentiviral vectors.