Prof. Dan Littman New York University, USA

Dan Littman is the Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Professor of Molecular Immunology and Professor of Pathology and Microbiology at NYU Langone Medical Center. He research focuses on the molecular events underlying T-lymphocyte differentiation and activation and how the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) enters target cells and causes systemic... read moredepletion of helper T cells. In both areas, his laboratory studies the functions of T-cell surface molecules and their interactions with intracellular signal transducing components.