Biography

Philip Goulder is a Professor of Immunology at the University of Oxford in UK. He read Zoology at Oxford University and then Medicine at Cambridge University before specialising in Paediatrics. His research centres on mechanisms of immune control of HIV infection in children and adults, on defining the mechanisms by which paediatric HIV cure can be achieved, and on the impact of early life immune sex differences on paediatric cure potential. Based at the Peter Medawar Building in Oxford, this work is focused on the HIV epidemic in South Africa through long-term links in Kimberley and in Durban with the Doris Duke Medical Research Institute at the University of Kwa-Zulu-Natal, CAPRISA and the African Health Research Institute (AHRI). In addition, this work is also supported by long-standing collaborations with colleagues at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard in Boston where Goulder is a Research Associate.