Advisory Board

The CFAR External Advisory Committee meets with the Duke CFAR leaders bi-annually to review the overall progress of the Duke CFAR in accomplishing its overall goals and advises the CFAR leadership on how to best serve the changing needs of the intramural community of HIV/AIDS investigators.

External Advisory Committee:

Ron Swanstrom, PhD
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Joseph Eron, MD
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Richard Koup, MD
NIH Vaccine Research Center

Katherine Luzuriaga, MD
University of Massachusetts

James Hoxie, MD
University of Pennsylvania

Kathy Sikkema, PhD
Columbia University

Renee Heffron, PhD, MPH
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Michael Hudgens, PhD
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Internal Advisory Committee:

Tomi Akinyemiju, PhD, Professor of Population Health Sciences and Global Health; Vice-Chair Diversity and Inclusion; Associate Director, Community Outreach Engagement, and Equity, Duke Cancer Institute

Joanna Downer, PhD, Associate Dean and Founding Director for Research Development, School of Medicine

Jennifer Lodge, PhD, Vice President for Research and Innovation; John Strohbehn University Distinguished Professor

Michael Pencina, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics; Chief Data Scientist; Vice Dean for Data Science, Director AI Health

Scott Soderling, PhD, Chair, Cell Biology; George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor for Research In Molecular Biology

Raphael Valdivia, PhD, Chair, Integrative Immunobiology, Nanaline Duke Distinguished Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology