


There he collaborates with the Doris Duke Medical Research Institute at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and serves as a Principal Investigator in the HIV Pathogenesis Program, an initiative to study the evolution of the HIV and the immune responses effective in controlling this virus, as well as to contribute to training African scientists. Walker is also an Adjunct Professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine in Durban, South Africa. He leads an international translational clinical and basic science research effort to understand how some rare people who are infected with HIV, but have never been treated, can fight the virus with their immune system. In addition to his clinical duties as a board certified Infectious Disease specialist, his research focuses on cellular immune responses in chronic human viral infections, with a particular focus on HIV immunology and vaccine development. Bruce Walker is the founding Director of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard, a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Practice at MIT, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator. Adjunct Faculty, Nelson Mandela School of Medicineĭr.Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.Professor of the Practice, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, MIT.Phillip T and Susan M Ragon Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

