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Dr. Richard Koup
Dr.
Richard Koup has accepted the position of Director of
the Human Immunology Program for the Vaccine Research
Center. In this role, Dr. Koup will be involved in the
development of HIV vaccines and in the development of
the infrastructure to analyze human immune responses
during clinical trials of vaccine candidates associated
with the center. He will also serve as a member of the
Internal Executive Committee and participate in major
decisions regarding priorities and the analysis of vaccine
candidates, for both prophylactic and therapeutic trials.
Dr. Koup received a B.S. in Biophysics
and a M.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Connecticut.
He received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine. Dr. Koup served an internship
and residency in Internal Medicine with the Rhode Island
Hospital, Brown University Medical School and a fellowship
in Infectious Diseases at UMass Medical School. He was
then appointed as a staff investigator at the Aaron
Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City before
moving to Dallas where he was the Chief of Infectious
Diseases and Professor of Medicine and Microbiology,
and the Jay P. Sanford Professor of Infectious Diseases,
at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Dr. Koup has been actively involved in
HIV vaccine-related research. His studies have focussed
on the role of HIV-specific cellular immunity in controlling
HIV infection and he was the discoverer of a natural
genetic mutation in the co-receptor for HIV that provides
significant protection against infection. He has served
on the National Advisory Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Council to the NIH, and serves on the external advisory
board for the Center for AIDS Research at Duke University
Medical Center, and the scientific advisory committee
of the New England Regional Primate Research Center.
He serves on the editorial boards for Journal of Experimental
Medicine and Journal of Virology, and is the pathogenesis
section editor for AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses.
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