Associate Professor of Medicine and Immunology
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Dr. Bernard JC Macatangay is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Immunology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Medicine and completed his General Infectious Diseases and his HIV/AIDS Clinical and Research fellowships at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a Physician-Scientist at the Center for AIDS Elimination in the Division of Infectious Diseases. He serves as Co-director of the University of Pittsburgh Immunology Specialty Laboratory of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) and as Co-chair of the Viral Immune Pathogenesis Working Group of the MACS/WIHS Combined Cohort Study (MWCCS). In addition, he is the Clinical Lab Director of the University of Pittsburgh Clinical Research Site, the Director of Student and Resident ID Research, and the Associate Program Director for Basic and Translational Research for the ID Fellowship Training Program. His laboratory studies the role of immune regulatory mechanisms and pathways in HIV chronic inflammation and HIV persistence and evaluates various immunotherapeutic strategies for the functional cure of HIV. Dr. Macatangay also teaches in the Medical Microbiology and the Immunology courses at the School of Medicine and serves as a faculty mentor for the Pitt School of Medicine Infectious Diseases Area of Concentration, also called “The Bug Club”.
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