Dr. Andrew Blauvelt earned his bachelor's degree from Purdue University, and then went on to medical school at Michigan State University in East Lansing. He completed an internship at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and did a residency in the Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery at the University of Miami.
He came to NIH in 1992 as a postdoctoral fellow in the Dermatology Branch of NCI. In 1995, he moved to the Molecular Virology Section of the Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology at NIAID for one year, before taking his present position as an investigator with NCI's Dermatology Branch. Dr. Blauvelt's research is in Langerhans cell-HIV interactions. Mounting evidence suggests that HIV enters the body by first infecting Langerhans cells in the genital tissues.
Dr. Frank Balis, originally from Philadelphia, did his undergraduate work at the University of North Carolina. He went on to Vanderbilt Medical School in Nashville, and did his pediatric residency at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital. He followed this training with fellowships in clinical pediatric hematology and oncology research at the Children's Orthopedic Hospital and Medical Center, and at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, in Seattle.
In 1982, Dr. Balis joined the Pediatric Branch of the National Cancer
Institute, where he has been ever since. He is presently a senior clinical
investigator in the Leukemia Biology Section; head of the Pharmacology and
Experimental Therapeutics Section; and chief of the Antiretroviral Pharmacology
Unit. Dr. Balis's research has focused on drug development and clinical
pharmacology of anticancer and antiretroviral drugs.
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