Download J. Victor Garcia-Martinez received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from

J. Victor Garcia-Martinez received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Georgetown University. He
received postdoctoral training at the National Cancer Institute, an institute within the U.S.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dr.
Garcia was a Research Associate at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
He was an Assistant, and subsequently, an Associate Member of St. Jude Children's Research
Hospital and a Professor of Medicine at U. T. Southwestern in Dallas.
Dr. Garcia is currently a Professor of Medicine in the Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), the
Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases (IGHID), and the Division of Infectious
Diseases in the Department of Medicine all at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Throughout his career, Dr. Garcia has made seminal contributions to the understanding of HIV
pathogenesis, specifically the function of Nef, which is an important determinant of HIV
pathogenesis and disease progression. More recently, Dr. Garcia’s group has established an
outstanding track record in the development, implementation and use of humanized mice. Since
their landmark publications describing the humanized BLT TOM and more recent MOM mouse
models have been widely used to address key questions of HIV infection, transmission,
prevention, and more recently, persistence and cure. He will give a lecture on “Humanized
mouse models for the study of viral pathogens and persistence” (PS2 “Animal Models for Virus
Research”, Thursday, 20 October, 12:30pm).