Scientific Advisory Board

Philippe Gallay, Ph.D.

The Scripps Research Institute


Adolfo García-Sastre, Ph.D.

Mount Sinai School of Medicine


Miguel García-Guzman, Ph.D.

Aspyrian Therapeutics


John Guatelli, M.D.

University of California San Diego


Vicente Planelles, Ph.D.

University of Utah


Ajay Madan, Ph.D., DABT

Neurocrine Biosciences


John Saunders, Ph.D.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Vicente Planelles, Ph.D.

University of Utah


Dr. Planelles is Professor of the Department of Pathology at the University of Utah. Previously, Dr. Planelles held a faculty position at the University of Rochester. He is a renowned expert in the study of HIV pathogenesis and other primate lentiviruses. He has authored more than a hundred peer-reviewed publications in this topic. His investigations have unraveled the molecular mechanisms governing the activity of the HIV-1 Vpr protein. Dr. Planelles was one of the first HIV researchers who engineered an assay to study in vitro the mechanisms of HIV reactivation from latency.