Rama Amara is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology
and Immunology at the Emory University School of Medicine, Professor at the
Emory Vaccine Center, Researcher at Yerkes National Primate Research Center,
and Investigator at the Emory Center for AIDS Research. With author credits on
over 200 scholarly articles, Amara has spent the majority of his career
developing both preventative and therapeutic vaccines for HIV and AIDS. His
work contributed to an AIDS vaccine that recently began Phase 2a human clinical
trials and he has authored 9 patents of his own. Additional research interests
include HIV vaccines for the Indian subcontinent, as the locally predominant
viral strain differs from that found in the US.
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