Dr. Eric Arts
Biography:
Dr. Eric Arts is Professor and Chair of Microbiology & Immunology at Western University, Canada Research Chair in HIV pathogenesis and Viral Control. Dr. Arts is an internationally renowned scholar, published over 130 papers, gave more than 100 invited talks, received funding from CIHR, NSERC, NIH, Merck, Gilead, and amfAR. At the Arts Lab, they believe that curing HIV/AIDS is an achievable goal. Since 1998, Dr. Arts has directed the research laboratories at the Joint Clinical Research Centre, Kampala, Uganda, a WHO regional lab, with the primary mission to understand HIV pathogenesis and to provide advanced clinical virology assays.