Ronald A. Mitsuyasu, M.D.
Associate Director, UCLA AIDS Institute
Director, CARE Center

Dr. Ronald A. Mitsuyasu is the Director of the Center for Clinical AIDS Research and Education at UCLA (CARE), a Professor of Medicine in Residence at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and an Associate Director of the UCLA AIDS Institute. A graduate of UC Berkeley, Dr. Mitsuyasu went on to receive an MD degree from the UCLA School of Medicine in 1978. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Rush University in 1981, and a fellowship in Hematology-Oncology at UCLA in 1984. He joined the UCLA faculty in 1984 in the Division of Hematology-Oncology, and is an expert on immune-based therapies for HIV and on AIDS-related malignancies. He is a major investigator of the role of interleukin-2 and other cytokines and vaccines as treatments for HIV, a pioneer in the clinical evaluation of gene therapy for HIV, and the principal investigator for an international Phase III gene-therapy study, which is the first of its kind. He has research and clinical background in hematology-oncology as well as in immunology and immunotherapeutics. In addition, he is the current chair of the AIDS Malignancy Consortium, which is a collaborative network funded by the National Cancer Institute to conduct clinical trials in subjects with AIDS-related malignancies.