Professor Pontiano Kaleebu
Professional Profile

Pontiano Kaleebu is the Director MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS and the Head of MRC-UVRI Basic Sciences Programme. He is also Deputy Director of Research at the Uganda Virus Research Institute and Head of Immunology Department of UVRI. He was the Executive Director of the UVRI-IAVI HIV Vaccine Program until December 2010. He is Honorary Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases and a Visiting Reader, Imperial College London Chelsea and Westminster, Department of Investigative Sciences.  

He studied Medicine at Makerere University graduating in 1986 and later studied for a Diploma in Immunology and a PhD at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital and St Mary’s Hospital part of University of London.

He joined UVRI in 1988 and MRC-UVRI in 1995. His major areas of interest include understanding the protective immune responses against HIV to contribute to the design of an HIV vaccine. Other interests are HIV vaccine trials, HIV molecular epidemiology and resistance to anti-retroviral drugs.

He has served on many national and International committees including WHO HIV vaccine advisory committee and the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise Scientific committee. He chairs the National HIV drug resistance working group. He is was the chair of the African AIDS Vaccine Programme Steering committee under WHO/UNAID. .back