Ronald G. Collman, MD.

Dr. Ronald G. Collman earned his undergraduate and M.D. degrees from Boston University in 1981, following which he completed internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. Dr. Collman came to Penn in 1986 as a fellow in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and then as a postdoc in the Department of Microbiology. Dr. Collman joined the Penn faculty as Assistant Professor in 1990 and rose through the ranks to become Professor of Medicine and Medicine in Microbiology in 2004. Ron has been director of the Virus/ Molecular Core of the CFAR since its inception in 1998, served as co-director of the Penn CFAR from 2008-15, and assumed the role of CFAR Director in 2015.

Dr. Collman has an extensive background in HIV-related research in the areas of viral tropism, macrophage infection and viral entry, HIV/AIDS pulmonary complications and pathogenesis, microbiome studies, as well as neuroAIDS pathogenesis. Dr. Collman has been continuously funded through one or more NIH HIV/AIDS-related grants since 1989. He has served on various AIDS Study Sections for the NIH, private foundations and international governmental agencies. Dr. Collman serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Clinical Investigation and the Journal of Virology. He is a clinical attending at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where he specializes in Critical Care Medicine and attends in the Medical Intensive Care Unit.