Annemarie M.J. Wensing, MD, PhD is a Clinical Virologist at the University Medical Center Utrecht and a Honorary Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
She attained her MSc and MD at the University of Utrecht. During her post graduate rotations she became involved in clinical HIV research and care. She worked at the HIV outpatient clinic of the University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht and was subsequently trained as a clinical virologist. She obtained her PhD on Transmission of drug resistant HIV-1. Her research focuses on improving antiviral treatment and viral eradication strategies globally by integrating insights from clinical and fundamental research on drug resistance, viral persistence, and evolution.
She is a principal investigator of several international projects such as the Rosetta global Integrase resistance registry and the IciStem program that guides and investigates a potential HIV cure by stem cell transplantation. She is a founding member of the European Society of Antiviral Research, served as a governing board member of the EACS, Â a member of the WHO HIV Drug Resistance ResNet and is chair of the IAS-USA resistance mutations panel.Â
