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Eva Agostino, B.S.

  • Center for Cancer Research
  • National Cancer Institute
HIV Dynamics and Replication Program

RESEARCH SUMMARY

Eva Agostino earned her B.S. in biological sciences from the University of Maryland at College Park.  During her undergraduate career, she did research on pathogenic O157:H7 E. coli outbreaks in Dr. Julie Kase’s lab at the FDA and SARS-CoV-2 entry in Dr. Meg Scull’s lab at the University of Maryland.  She is currently working on elucidating the inhibitory mechanism of a neutral sphinomyelinase-2 inhibitor on HIV-1 replication and the interaction between the gp41 cytoplasmic tail and matrix lattice during envelope glycoprotein incorporation.

Areas of Expertise

Virology
Retroviruses
Virus Assembly
Cell Biology
Host Factors
NSMase2 Inhibitor