Gaurav Gaiha

Gaurav Gaiha is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, Principal Investigator at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, and an Attending Physician in the Division of Gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge, USA.

He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford, UK, as a Clarendon Scholar and his MD magna cum laude from the Harvard–MIT Health Sciences and Technology programme. He completed clinical training in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Ragon Institute.

His research focuses on developing novel T cell-based vaccines for HIV and other infectious diseases by targeting epitopes derived from structurally constrained viral regions. He has received several honours, including the NIAID New Innovator Award, the Burroughs Wellcome Career Award for Medical Scientists, the Gilead HIV Scholar Award, the Krane Award from the MGH Department of Medicine and the Howard Goodman Fellowship.