Faculty

Dr. Robert R. Redfield
Co-Founder of the IHV
Director, Clinical Care & Research Division
rredfield@ihv.umaryland.edu

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Dr. Robert Redfield, co-founder of the Institute of Human Virology and Director of its Clinical Research and Care Division, is a pioneer in clinical human viral research with notable accomplishments in the area of HIV immunoregulation, immunotherapy, and vaccine development.

In collaboration with Dr. Robert C. Gallo's group in the mid-1980's, Dr. Redfield was the first to demonstrate heterosexual transmission of HIV-1. Additional accomplishments include the development of a conceptual framework for clinically staging the continuum of HIV infection now used throughout the world; development and application of a delayed hypersensitivity skin test as a routine staging procedure; the development and application of the Department of Defense serological HIV screening program; and sentinel demonstration of active viral transcription (lack of viral latency) in all patients with HIV infection. Dr. Redfield also was the first to characterize anti-HIV envelope immune responses and demonstrate T-cell recognition defects in the setting of natural infection.

Dr. Redfield's most notable accomplishment is his pioneering efforts to apply knowledge gained from clinical laboratory-based studies to the bedside, resulting in the development and clinical application of novel immunotherapeutic strategies for the treatment of chronic viral diseases designed to exploit the body for its therapeutic potential. Today, his research efforts focus on the application of these strategies to make therapeutic treatment options available globally to the millions of persons living with HIV infection in resource-poor and resource-limited areas.

Dr. Redfield received a B.S. degree from Georgetown University College of Arts and Sciences in 1973 and a M.D. from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1977. His postgraduate medical training was conducted at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.: Straight Medicine Internship, 1978; Internal Medicine Residency, 1978-1980; Clinical and Research Fellowship in Infectious Diseases, 1980-1982; and Tropical Medicine, 1982.

He is the recipient of an honorary degree from New York Medical College, as well as the recipient of a Lifetime Science Award from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Immunology and Aging. Other awards include the Highest Achievement in Clinical Virology Award from Ortho Diagnostic Systems Incorporated, the Surgeon General's Physician Recognition Award, and multiple medals in virology awarded by the U.S. Army.

Dr. Redfield is Professor of Medicine and Professor of Immunology and Microbiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Infectious Disease; is Associate Director of the Institute of Human Virology, a center of the University of Maryland Biotechnology Center; Director of its Clinical Care and Research Division; and is Director of the Adult HIV Program, University of Maryland Medicine.

He serves on the Fogarty International Center Advisory Board and is a member of the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council of the National Institutes of Health.