Dr. Rupert Kaul completed his clinical training in Infectious Diseases at the University of Toronto, and was then a research fellow at the Universities of Nairobi and Oxford for several years. He completed an immunology PhD and returned to the University of Toronto and University Health Network, where he currently serves as the director of the clinical division of Infectious Disease and runs a research lab focused on interactions between HIV transmission, genital and rectal immunology, sexually transmitted infections and the microbiome. His translational research is based in participant cohorts from Canada, Kenya and Uganda, with the support of a University of Toronto / OHTN Endowed Chair in HIV Research. He was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 2013.
