Rafick-Pierre Sékaly
PhD
Dr. Sékaly's research pioneered findings in HIV disease immune pathogenesis, immune virology and immunotherapies highlighting the impact of HIV infection on thymic output, T cell memory, mechanisms of CD4 and CD8 T cell dysfunction, and innate immunity and mechanisms of HIV persistence.
Titles and Roles
- Professor and Vice-Chair of Translational Medicine, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- Emory University School of Medicine
- Research Program
- Cancer Immunology
Biography
Rafick-Pierre Sékaly, PhD, is Professor and serves as Vice-Chair of Translational Medicine in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Sékaly is a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar. He is a member of the Cancer Immunology Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute.
Education
Dr Sékaly obtained his PhD in Biochemistry from the Université de Lausanne in Switzerland where he also completed a postdoctoral fellowship on immunogenetics and molecular biology.
Research
For over two decades, Dr. Sékaly's group has been focused on developing a better understanding of the human immune response to vaccines and to chronic viral infections with a specific focus on HIV infection. They have implemented the use of system biology approaches to monitor the diversity of memory T cell and to identify the mechanisms underlying the diversity of memory T cell subsets. They have pioneered the application of systems biology approaches to the understanding of mechanisms of action of the licensed vaccines and adjuvants. They have also shown for the first time the diversity of the mechanism that lead to the establishment and persistence of HIV in different memory T cell subsets.
Publications
Dr. Sékaly has published more than 340 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals and holds 25 patents in adjuvants, PD-1 and vaccine vectors.
Dr. Sékaly is an inductee of the MilliPub Club, which recognizes current Emory faculty who have published one or more individual papers throughout their careers that have garnered more than 1,000 citations.
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