| ames Mullins, PhD, is currently Professor in the Departments of Microbiology and Medicine and
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine, at the University of Washington. He is also Chairman of the
Microbiology department. Dr. Mullins has worked in the field of AIDS research for 19 years. He has been invited to deliver
more than 200 lectures on HIV research at national and international universities, symposia and workshops, and has more than
150 research publications and review articles in this area. He has served on review and decision making panels for the United
States National Institute of Health and World Health Organization, agencies which promote and fund many research projects
relating to human health, and sits on a number of Editorial Review Boards.
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Strengths of the Mullins laboratory are in the areas of genetic characterization and
computational analysis of HIV gene sequences. In addition, he has for many years worked with the WHO and now UNAIDS
Network for HIV isolation and characterization, developing methods for rapid genetic characterization of HIV (the HMA
technique), global investigations of HIV-1 clade representation, and transferring these as well as other sequence
analysis technologies to developing countries through a series of more than a dozen week-long workshops in Africa,
Asia, South America, Russia and Western Europe.
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