Dr. He is new director of IU Center for AIDS Research

Johnny J. He, Ph.D. (left), has been named director of the Indiana University Center for AIDS Research.

Dr. He’s major research interests are the molecular mechanisms of HIV infection and development in the central nervous system and how the HIV and hepatitis C viruses evade human immune systems. An associate professor of microbiology and immunology and of medicine, Dr. He also is an associate member of the Walther Oncology Center.

Dr. He completed a BS at Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, and an MS at Beijing (China) Agricultural University. He also received master’s and doctoral degrees from New York University. He completed post doctoral studies at Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center at Rockefeller University and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School.

The IU Center for AIDS Research supports a multi-disciplinary environment in basic, clinical, epidemiologic, behavioral and translational research for the prevention, detection and treatment of HIV infection and AIDS.