Taisuke Izumi Assistant Professor CAS | BIO | Biology

Degrees: B.S., Ibaraki University, Japan
M.S, Kumamoto University, Japan
PhD, Kyoto University, Japan
Research Resident, Foundation of AIDS Prevention, Japan
Visiting Fellow, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, USA
Bio: Emerging infectious diseases, including HIV and SARS, are defined as uncontrollable outbreaks of infectious diseases to break down public health.
Taisuke Izumi, PhD, focuses his research at American University with the aim to understand the persistence of HIV and SARS-CoV2 infections, which leads to developing an HIV functional cure strategy and treatment of long-term COVID-19 effects.

In addition, chronic herpesvirus infections, such as KSHV and EBV, are being investigated under microgravity conditions using a unique cell culture device.

Complete list of published work in a Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=3CzDmJsAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

On-goin Research Support
1. 7R15AI172610-02, NIAID/NIH (https://reporter.nih.gov/search/tHJSPv8xEUa5LkFpP4ATkQ/project-details/10871495)

2. P30AI117970, DC-CFAR Pilot Award
(https://dccfar.gwu.edu/pilot-award-recipient-taisuke-izumi-phd)

3. Research Start-Up Grant, American University

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