Sarah Read, MD
Biography
Sarah Read, MD, serves as Deputy Director of the Division of AIDS (DAIDS) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The division supports a global HIV/AIDS research portfolio of more than $1 billion in the areas of 1) fundamental basic laboratory research, 2) discovery and development of therapies for HIV infection, related co-infections, and non-infectious co-morbidities, and the complications associated with treated HIV disease through basic research and clinical trials, and 3) discovery and development of vaccines and other prevention strategies through basic research and clinical trials. Previously, Dr. Read served as Director of the Therapeutics Research Program in DAIDS. Prior to joining DAIDS, she was an Associate Clinical Investigator in the Laboratory of Immunoregulation at NIAID where her research focused on immune activation and inflammation in treated HIV infection as well as on immune based therapies for HIV.

Position
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), United States