Jean-Michel Molina

Jean-Michel Molina, MD, PhD, is Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Paris Cité, and Head of the Infectious Diseases Department at the Saint-Louis and Lariboisière Hospitals in Paris, France.

His primary clinical research interest focuses on HIV infection, initially the treatment of AIDS-related opportunistic infections, and then the treatment of HIV infection.

Dr Molina has been involved in a number of studies assessing new drugs or new strategies for the treatment of HIV infection. A cohort of more than 6,000 patients with HIV infection is followed in his department.

Dr Molina chaired the clinical trial group at the French National Agency for AIDS Research (ANRS) for the last 12 years.

More recently, Pr. Molina has broadened his research to the prevention of HIV infection and has led the ANRS IPERGAY pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) trial in men who have sex with men. A cohort of more than 3,500 people on PrEP is followed in his unit. Recent studies have focused on the prevention of other sexually transmitted infections using antibiotic prophylaxis or vaccines.