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Susan B. Zolla-Pazner Ph.D. is a member of Lipid Sciences' Viral Advisory Board (VAB). Dr. Zolla-Pazner is a tenured professor of Pathology at New York University (NYU). She is the Director of the AIDS International Training & Research Program at NYU and Director of the Immunology Core Laboratory of the NYU Center for AIDS Research. She is also the Director of the Research Enhancement Award Program of the New York Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Zolla-Pazner's research has been in the areas of HIV vaccines and human monoclonal antibody production.
Dr. Zolla-Pazner is among the pioneers involved in the diagnosis and description of the first AIDS patients. She chaired the first international symposium on AIDS in Kyoto Japan in 1983 and in April of 2003 gave the first Pioneer Lecture at the Keystone Conference on HIV Vaccine and Pathogenesis.
She has published over 200 articles in peer-review journals two of which she co-authored with fellow VAB member Dr. James Hildreth and is an inventor on several patents. Dr. Zolla-Pazner received her Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology from the University of California San Francisco and was a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU Medical Center.
Committees on which Dr. Zolla-Pazner has served as a member are: the UNAIDS Working Group on HIV of the World Health Organization; the Vaccine Working Group of the National Institutes of Health; the AIDS Research Advisory Committee of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; and the editorial boards of Journal of Virology AIDS Research and Retrovirology Cellular Immunology and The Journal of Immunologic Methods. | 