| Clive Gray, PhD is an immunologist and Head of the CTL laboratory at the National Institute
for Communicable Diseases. He is Co-Chair of HIVNET 028 a 5 country study on immune responses in acute HIV infection.
Dr Gray received training as a biologist and later specialized in immunology. His initial research was in transplantation
immunology and understanding allo-recognition and innate immunity. He moved into HIV/AIDS research seeing this as a priority
in the South African context. He was awarded the prestigious James Gear Fellowship in 1995, which allowed him to work at the Center for AIDS Research at Stanford University as a Post-doctoral Fellow. From 1996 to 1998, he was involved in investigating specific cellular immunity to HIV in individuals receiving antiretroviral drug therapy.
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He was responsible for co-coordinating a HIV vaccine workshop in Cape Town in early 1997
with the aim of initiating HIV vaccine research in South Africa. Since this time, he has been actively involved in the
scientific agenda of vaccine development in South Africa and directs much of his energies to accomplishing this task.
At present, he directs a laboratory within the AIDS Unit at the National Institute for Virology specifically addressing
cellular immunity in Southern African HIV-1 infected individuals.
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