Past Collaborators and Advisors
Sharon Lewin, FRACP, PhD
Previous INHCC Advisor Dr Sharon Lewin is the inaugural Director of the Doherty Institute at the University of Melbourne (UNIMELB); She is also a Professor of Medicine at UNIMELB and a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Practitioner Fellow. Her lab focuses on strategies to find a cure for HIV and understanding the interaction between HIV and hepatitis B virus. She was co-chair of the 20th International AIDS Conference, an elected member of the Governing Council of the International AIDS Society’s and chair of the Ministerial Advisory Committee for Blood Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmitted Infections. Prof Lewin has authored over 260 publications and has given over 100 international invited talks on HIV cure. In 2019, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to medical research, education, and clinical care in the field of infectious diseases, particularly HIV and AIDS
Previous INHCC Advisor Dr Sharon Lewin is the inaugural Director of the Doherty Institute at the University of Melbourne (UNIMELB); She is also a Professor of Medicine at UNIMELB and a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Practitioner Fellow. Her lab focuses on strategies to find a cure for HIV and understanding the interaction between HIV and hepatitis B virus. She was co-chair of the 20th International AIDS Conference, an elected member of the Governing Council of the International AIDS Society’s and chair of the Ministerial Advisory Committee for Blood Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmitted Infections. Prof Lewin has authored over 260 publications and has given over 100 international invited talks on HIV cure. In 2019, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to medical research, education, and clinical care in the field of infectious diseases, particularly HIV and AIDS
Eugene Kroon, MD
Eugène Kroon, recently retired, was the Medical Doctor Supervisor at the IHRI, based in Bangkok. He started his career in clinical HIV research in Amsterdam in 1994 under Professor Joep Lange and has mostly worked in Thailand since 1996. The focus of his early HIV research was in new antiretroviral therapies and access to effective ART in Thailand and in emerging economies. This research contributed to marketing authorization of drugs such as nevirapine and ritonavir and also contributed to the Thai government’s decision, in the early 2000s, to expand access to ART. He also contributed to rolling out ART with the Clinton HIV-AIDS Initiative in South-Africa. His current work focuses on describing acute HIV infection and on HIV cure strategies. The RV254 study has already provided valuable insights regarding the former while this cohort of virally suppressed acutely infected subjects are now participating in HIV functional cure studies at IHRI.
Eugène Kroon, recently retired, was the Medical Doctor Supervisor at the IHRI, based in Bangkok. He started his career in clinical HIV research in Amsterdam in 1994 under Professor Joep Lange and has mostly worked in Thailand since 1996. The focus of his early HIV research was in new antiretroviral therapies and access to effective ART in Thailand and in emerging economies. This research contributed to marketing authorization of drugs such as nevirapine and ritonavir and also contributed to the Thai government’s decision, in the early 2000s, to expand access to ART. He also contributed to rolling out ART with the Clinton HIV-AIDS Initiative in South-Africa. His current work focuses on describing acute HIV infection and on HIV cure strategies. The RV254 study has already provided valuable insights regarding the former while this cohort of virally suppressed acutely infected subjects are now participating in HIV functional cure studies at IHRI.
Linda Jagodzinski, PhD
Dr. Jagodzinski, recently retired, was the Chief, Technology Assessment Lab for Walter Reed Army Institute (WRAIR), and provides molecular testing support to clinical research studies and to the HIV Diagnostics and Reference Laboratory in the diagnosis and monitoring of HIV-1 infected individuals. She has directed and collaborated on numerous studies of HIV-1 pathogenesis, molecular epidemiology, diagnosis and patient monitoring for 35 years.
Dr. Jagodzinski, recently retired, was the Chief, Technology Assessment Lab for Walter Reed Army Institute (WRAIR), and provides molecular testing support to clinical research studies and to the HIV Diagnostics and Reference Laboratory in the diagnosis and monitoring of HIV-1 infected individuals. She has directed and collaborated on numerous studies of HIV-1 pathogenesis, molecular epidemiology, diagnosis and patient monitoring for 35 years.
Past INHCC Trainees
Michael Peluso, MD, MPhil, MHS
Ivo N. SahBandar, MD, PhD
John Best, MD
Ryan Handoko, MD
Payal Patel, MD
Phillip Chan, MD
Michelle Chintanaphol
Michelle D'Antoni, PhD
Orlanda Goh, MD
Joanna Hellmuth, MD, MHS
Idil Kore, MD
Andrew Silverman, MD
Apirada (Ann) Rakpraja, MD
Michael Peluso, MD, MPhil, MHS
Ivo N. SahBandar, MD, PhD
John Best, MD
Ryan Handoko, MD
Payal Patel, MD
Phillip Chan, MD
Michelle Chintanaphol
Michelle D'Antoni, PhD
Orlanda Goh, MD
Joanna Hellmuth, MD, MHS
Idil Kore, MD
Andrew Silverman, MD
Apirada (Ann) Rakpraja, MD
