Raiees Andrabi, PhD Renata Arrington-Sanders, MD Jesper Pallesen, PhD Blanton S. Tolbert, PhD

 

Please join us in welcoming four new faculty members to the Penn CFAR!

 

Raiees Andrabi, PhD

Associate Professor

Division of Infectious Diseases

Dr. Andrabi’s work focuses on development of vaccine immunogens against complex pathogens such as HIV, Influenza virus, Arenaviruses and Coronaviruses.

Renata Arrington Sanders, MD

Chief of the Craig-Dalsimer Division of Adolescent Medicine

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Dr. Arrington-Sanders’ work focuses on improving the sexual health of sexual and gender minority youth with a particular focus on African American adolescent men who have sex with men and HIV prevention and treatment community-based efforts to link and engage adolescents at risk for and living with HIV in care.

Blanton S. Tolbert, PhD

Jacob Gershon Cohen Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Dr. Tolbert is a leader in RNA Structural Biology with particular emphasis on using NMR to study viral RNAs and their complexes.

Jesper Pallesen, PhD

Assistant Professor, Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center

Wistar Institute

Dr. Pallesen studies infectious disease and cancer and develops vaccines and immunotherapeutics from a structural biology guided approach.