Director, HJF component of the U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MJRP) and the Emerging Infectious Diseases Branch (EIDB), VP, Global Infectious Diseases Research
Henry M. Jackson Foundation (HJF) for the Advancement of Military Medicine
USA
Sandhya Vasan, MD, is the Vice President of Global Infectious Diseases Research at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (HJF) and the Director of the HJF Component of the U.S. Military HIV Research Program at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. She obtained her undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before completing her MD at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard Medical School.
Sandhya leads US-based and international teams of researchers focused on basic and translational science and clinical trials for vaccines, monoclonal antibodies and HIV remission. She serves as the principal investigator on HJF’s agreements with the U.S. Department of Defense to support research at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Earlier in her career, she studied HIV vaccines and adjuvants at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center and The Rockefeller University. She also spent seven years in Bangkok, Thailand, where she conducted clinical trials of therapeutic interventions and preventive vaccines at the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences.
She serves on several external scientific advisory boards and data safety monitoring boards. She also serves on boards of directors, including for the Good Participatory Practices Advisory Committee for the Coalition to Accelerate and Support Prevention Research at the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC). She is co-PI for the Immunotherapy for Cure, a Martin Delany Collaboratory funded by the National Institutes of Health.