Todd M Allen

Dr. Todd M Allen is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and faculty at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard where he serves as the Program Leader in Virology. He received his Ph.D. in Cellular & Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin. His research is focused on deciphering the immunological and virological factors influencing immune control of HIV and HCV to generate effective vaccine immunogens. His current areas of research include: 1) Determining the host and viral factors impacting the transmission of HIV and HCV; 2) Translating gene-editing and CAR-T immunotherapies in vivo using humanized mouse models to explore novel approaches to cure HIV; 3) Determining the role of HIV envelope evolution in the development of broadly neutralizing antibodies