Professor Sharon Lewin, FRACP, PhD

Sharon Lewin is an infectious diseases physician and basic scientist. She is Director of The Doherty Institute. Sharon is also Director of the Infectious Diseases Unit at The Alfred; Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Monash University in Melbourne and an NHMRC Practitioner Fellow.

Sharon completed her medical training at Monash University, followed by a PhD in virology at the Burnet Institute in Melbourne and a post-doctoral fellowship at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, The Rockefeller University in New York.

Sharon currently heads a research laboratory that aims to understand why HIV and hepatitis B virus persist and evade the immune system with the goal of finding a cure for HIV.

She is the immediate past president of the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine and is currently a member of the Ministerial Advisory Board on Blood Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), the peak advisory body to the Health Minister on matters related to HIV, viral hepatitis and STIs. She was the co-chair of the International AIDS Conference, the major international conference for HIV, which was held in Melbourne 2014.

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