Executive Committee
Richard D’Aquila, M.D.
Director
The Addison B. Scoville Jr. Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Dr. D’Aquila studied Biology at Yale College, received his M.D. degree at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and did his Medicine Residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He then undertook fellowships in Infectious Diseases and Molecular Virology at Yale Medical School. He served on the faculty of the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School before starting at Vanderbilt in 2001.
Dr. D’Aquila was involved in the development of antiretroviral resistance testing, which is now an essential tool for HIV medicine. The major focus of Dr. D’Aquila’s laboratory is now on understanding the APOBEC3 (A3) family of host proteins in order to develop novel interventions against HIV persistence that will lead to a “functional cure”.
Maria Lima, Ph.D.
Interim Associate CFAR Director at Meharry (pending a national search for Director of MMC’s CAHDR)
Dean, Meharry Medical College School of Graduate Studies & Research
David Haas, M.D.
Associate CFAR Director at Vanderbilt
Professor of Medicine
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Sten Vermund, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Co-Director of the Global HIV Scientific Working Group
Director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health
The Amos Christie Chair in Global Health
Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, Preventive Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine