Jerome A. Zack, PhD
Associate Director, UCLA AIDS Institute
Professor, Departments of Medicine, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics

Dr. Jerome Zack is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine as well as Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He joined the UCLA faculty in 1991, and teaches the undergraduate immunology course. The author of more than 100 scientific publications, Dr. Zack is best known for his innovative work on how HIV replicates and causes disease, and in developing new therapeutic approaches for eradicating the AIDS virus.

Most recently, Dr. Zack’s success in flushing HIV out of hiding and eliminating latent virus has drawn considerable attention. Dr. Zack’s work has also shown that the AIDS virus can inhibit the function of blood-forming (hematopoietic) stem cells. These studies have progressed to initial clinical trials of hematopoietic stem-cell therapy for AIDS. It is hoped that in time Dr. Zack’s studies will help find a more effective treatment than the multidrug therapy now in use to treat HIV disease.

Dr. Zack holds a BS in Biology from the University of California, Irvine, an MS in Medical Microbiology from California State University, Long Beach, and a PhD in Immunology from University of Texas Southwestern. Among his many honors, Dr. Zack is the recipient of the Pediatric AIDS Foundation’s “Elizabeth Glaser Scientist Award,” an NIH Merit Award for his work “In Vivo Pathogenesis of HIV-1,” and the Ohio State University Center for Retrovirus Research “Distinguished Research Career Award.”