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Peter R. Shank received his Bachelor of Science from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a postdoctoral fellow at UCSF under the guidance of Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus, focusing on retroviruses. Since joining the Brown faculty in 1978, he has extensively published on molecular biology and retroviruses and has served on numerous editorial boards and NIH review panels. His research primarily explores regulatory genes in HIV-1, with a particular interest in the mechanism of action of the tat gene, which is a unique transcriptional activator that interacts with the secondary structural elements of the 5' end of the RNA transcript. He is also investigating the role of HIV in malignancies, particularly B-cell lymphomas, and has demonstrated that HIV can infect human B-cells in a CD4-independent manner. His laboratory continues to study similar genes in HIV-2 and simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV).
Brown University • Providence, RI
Conducts research on HIV-1 and has a long-standing interest in molecular biology and retroviruses.
Department: Department of Economics