Ravindra Gupta
Professor Ravindra "Ravi" Kumar Gupta is a professor of clinical microbiology at the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease at the University of Cambridge. He is also on faculty of the Africa Health Research Institute in Durban, South Africa.
Gupta was included in Time magazine 's 100 Most Influential People in 2020.[1]
Education
Gupta gained his undergraduate medical degree from Cambridge University in 1997 and then clinical degree from Oxford University in 2001, whilst completing a Master in Public Health at Harvard School of Public Health (1998-1999). He subsequently trained in infectious diseases in Oxford and The Hospital for Tropical Diseases (UCLH).
Career
Gupta's research program centers on HIV, from basic science of how the virus interacts with human cells and the immune system, through to global studies on the emerging problem of drug resistant HIV.
Gupta was formerly Professor at University College London (2016-2019) [2][3] He is head of the Gupta Lab and has been a Wellcome Trust Fellowship holder since 2007.[4] In March 2019 it was reported that Gupta had led a team demonstrating HIV remission in a HIV positive man with advanced Hodgkin's lymphoma following an 'unrelated' stem cell transplant, the so-called 'London Patient'.[5][6][7]
Gupta's lab has teams in the UK and Durban, South Africa. The lab focuses on two areas:
- Studying HIV drug resistance to protease / integrase inhibitors and implications for global scale up of antiretroviral therapy.[8]
- Dissecting the biology of macrophage-virus interactions given myeloid cells are parasitised by HIV and are a difficult-to-treat reservoir.[9]
He is married with three children.
References
- ^ "Ravindra Gupta: The 100 Most Influential People of 2020". Time. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
- ^ "Professor Ravindra Gupta". Ucl.ac.uk. 28 June 2018. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ "Ravi Gupta". Ahri.org. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ "UCL - London's Global University". Ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ "UK man 'free' of HIV with new stem cells". Bbc.co.uk. 5 March 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ "London patient becomes second adult to be cleared of HIV". Theguardian.com. 5 March 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ Apoorva Mandavilli (4 March 2019). "H.I.V. Is Reported Cured in a Second Patient, a Milestone in the Global AIDS Epidemic". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ "Ravindra Gupta - CITIID". Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
- ^ "Ravindra Gupta - CITIID". Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
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