Michael Peluso, MD, MHS
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

I am an infectious disease clinical-translational physician-scientist. My primary interests are HIV and COVID-19. I am involved with clinical and laboratory research aimed at understanding the HIV reservoir and implementing clinical trials to disrupt the reservoir with the aim of inducing antiretroviral therapy-free HIV remission.

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In addition, I manage a large observational study of people who previously had SARS-CoV-2 infection with the goal of understanding the long-term biological and immunological consequences of COVID-19, including post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC) and Long COVID.

Education & Training

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  • Fellowship Infectious Diseases University of California, San Francisco 06/2021
  • Residency Internal Medicine / Global Health Equity Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School 06/2017
  • DTM&H Tropical Medicine Gorgas Memorial Institute 04/2017
  • MD, MHS Medicine Yale University School of Medicine 05/2013
  • MPhil Public Health University of Cambridge 09/2008
  • BA Neuroscience and Behavior / Evolutionary Biology Columbia University 05/2007

Interests

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  • Viral persistence
  • HIV clinical trials
  • Post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC)
  • Long COVID
  • Global health education
  • HIV cure
  • COVID-19

Websites

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Grants and Projects

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  • Characterizing the virologic and immunologic signatures of HIV exceptional control, NIH, 2021-2026
  • Long-term Impact of Infection with Novel Coronavirus: A Clinical Core to Support Long COVID Collaborative Research, PolyBio Foundation, 2023-2025
  • Evaluating the magnitude and durability of the vaccine-induced SARS-CoV-2 immune response in people with and without HIV infection, UCSF/Gladstone Center for AIDS Research, 2021-2022
  • Symptoms and biomarkers of long COVID in people living with HIV, amfAR: The Foundation for AIDS Research, 2021
  • Virologic and immunologic correlates of SARS-CoV-2 infection in people living with HIV, UCSF/Gladstone Center for AIDS Research, 2020-2021
  • A comprehensive immunologic analysis of HIV ‘extraordinary’ controllers as a model for durable HIV suppression, UCSF/Gladstone Center for AIDS Research, 2019-2021

Publications (164)

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Anti-Retroviral AgentsHIV-1HIV InfectionsProvirusesAntibodies, ViralEducation, MedicalStudents, MedicalInternational Educational ExchangeRetroviridae InfectionsEducation, Medical, UndergraduateInternationalityGlobal HealthInternational CooperationCerebrospinal FluidSchools, Medical

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