Janet K. Yamamoto
Professor of Retroviral Immunology University of Florida USA USA
Biography
Dr. Janet K. Yamamoto is a Professor of Retroviral Immunology in the Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology, University of Florida. She is the first to demonstrate, together with Nobel laureate Dr. Francoise Barré-Sinoussi, that interferon-gamma will enhance HIV-1 infection, and she has served as the consultant of the second FDA-approved HIV-1 immunoblot for HIV-1 confirmatory test. Yamamoto co-discovered the feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), and also invented the first commercial FIV vaccine sold by Pfizer-Zoetis and Boehringer. She was inducted to the National Academy of Inventors in 2014 and has published over 85 journal/book articles and over 30 patent publications. (100 words)
Abstract
Abstract : A need for T-cell based vaccines against AIDS lentiviruses
