Our Research

Our research group seeks to understand and address the mechanisms underlying damage to the central nervous system in HIV infection, and the establishment and reduction of viral reservoirs in the CNS. We work in diverse modalities, and with a wide range of collaborators, to study the processes of immune activation, neuroprotection, and neuropathogenesis that occur during early and chronic untreated HIV and during suppressive HIV treatment.

Current Lab Members
(For a complete list, please see People)
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Principal Investigator: 
Serena Spudich, MD

​Assistant Professor: 
​Dr. Shelli Farhadian, MD, PhD

Instructor: 
Payal Patel, MD

Research Scientist: 
Jennifer Chiarella, BS

Medical Students:
Ryan Handoko, BS
​Julian Weiss, BA
​Diego Armengol, BA
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Postgraduate Associates: 
Rachela Calvi, BA
​Michelle Chintanaphol, BS

Contact Information
Serena Spudich, MD, MA
300 George St., Rm. 8300C
New Haven, CT 06511
serena.spudich@yale.edu
​(203) 737-5309

Recent News​

• Rachela Calvi, postgraduate associate, has been accepted to New York University, Rory Meyers College of Nursing, beginning this fall.
  
• Michelle Chintanaphol, research assistant, has been accepted to the University of Tennessee, College of Medicine beginning this fall.
  
• Ryan Handoko, medical student, has been matched for residency in pediatrics at the John Hopkins University School of Medicine.
  
• Our Twitter (@SpudichLabYale) has gone live! Follow us to keep updated with our #CROI2020 presentation whereabouts.
• Please click here for a complete list of our CROI 2020 abstracts. Our group has 3 oral presentations, 1 themed discussion, and 10 posters this year.
• Shelli Farhadian, MD, presented oral abstracts at CROI 2020.
• Julian Weiss, medical student, presented an oral abstract and poster at CROI 2020. 
• An open-access supplement issue of AIDS focused on CNS HIV reservoirs co-edited by Serena was published, see journals.lww.com/aidsonline/toc/2019/12012

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