
Mary Grace Katusiime, Ph.D.
- Center for Cancer Research
- National Cancer Institute
- Building 535, Room 134
- Frederick, MD 21702-1201
- 301-846-6522
- marygrace.katusiime@nih.gov
RESEARCH SUMMARY
Mary Grace Katusiime earned her Ph.D. in medical virology from Stellenbosch University in South Africa under the mentorship of Prof. Gert van Zyl. She was awarded a Margaret McNamara Education Grant in 2018 and a CROI New Investigator Scholarship in 2019. Her research is aimed at describing the persistent HIV-1 reservoir in long-term suppressed, perinatally infected children with a focus on genetically intact viruses, rebound viruses, and immune responses during ART. She is also characterizing proviral integration sites in various cell subsets and proviral decay kinetics in early-treated, long-term suppressed children.
Areas of Expertise
1) pediatric HIV, 2) viral persistence, 3) HIV cure, 4) viral genetics, 5) viral molecular assays, 6) viral evolution