Sergei Nekhai
Center for Sickle Cell Disease, USA
Biography
Sergei Nekhai has a Ph.D. degree in biophysics from St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Russia. He did his postdoctoral training at the George Washington University. He serves as co-Director for Howard University’s Center for Sickle Cell Disease and Director of Proteomics. He studies HIV-1 transcription, pulmonary hypertension in sickle cell disease and iron metabolism with the focus on ferroportin mutations that might pose a risk for iron overload and worsen HIV-1 infection in African-Americans. He has more than 50 publications in basic virology and hematology journals and serves as a PI and co-PI on several NIH-funded grants.
Abstract
Abstract : Protein phosphatase-1 as a target for antiviral small molecules against HIV-1 infections
