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AIDS Vaccine 2010
Biography - Dr. Eric Hunter
Eric Hunter is Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Emory University, Co-Director of the Emory Center
for AIDS Research and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar. Until 2004 he was Professor of Microbiology at
the University of Alabama at Birmingham where he was the founding Director of the UAB Center for AIDS Research,
guiding its growth over 16 years into one of the leading AIDS research institutions in the United States. He is currently
Chair of the AIDS Vaccine Research Subcommittee, which is charged to provide advice and consultation on AIDS
vaccine research to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He is Editor in Chief of the journal AIDS
Research and Human Retroviruses, serves on the Editorial boards of several academic journals, and on the external
advisory committees to several academic and commercial institutions.
Dr. Hunter's career included undergraduate studies in bacteriology at Birmingham University, England, and graduate
work in tumor immunology carried out at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund & Brunel University, London, England.
During postdoctoral studies at the University of Southern California and following his move to UAB, he pioneered
molecular genetics approaches to examine retrovirus replication. His laboratory has been recognized internationally for
its work in defining the molecular events involved in retroviral assembly and for elucidating the structure/function
relationships for retroviral gene products at a molecular level. For the past few years his laboratory has investigated
the molecular biological mechanisms underlying HIV transmission among heterosexual couples living in Rwanda and
Zambia with an aim toward developing novel vaccine approaches that might prevent this transmission event. His
bibliography includes over 200 articles, reviews and book chapters. He has been the recipient of 3 NIH merit awards
for his work on retrovirus molecular biology.