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. She is the clinical supervisor of the HIV laboratory in the UMC Utrecht which serves as a reference laboratory for HIV resistance testing and performs resistance testing on dried blood spots send in from areas all over the world.
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As consultant she advises infectious disease specialists from multiple HIV-centers in the Netherlands. Her research focuses on HIV cure and on transmission and mechanisms of HIV drug-resistance and since recently also on SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis. She is a principal investigator of several international projects such as the IciStem program that guides and investigate a potential HIV cure by stem cell transplantation. She has served as a governing board member of the EACS, is a founding member of the European Society of Antiviral Research, a member of the WHO HIV Drug Resistance ResNet and chair of the IAS-USA resistance mutations panel.Â
