Luis Montaner

Luis J. Montaner, DVM, DPhil, is Executive Vice President of The Wistar Institute (wistar.org), Director of the HIV Cure & Viral Diseases Center, and Herbert Kean, MD, Family Professor. He leads the BEAT-HIV Delaney Collaboratory (beat-hiv.org) and iCure program (personalized HIV cure platform development inclusive of NK cell-mediated therapy strategies). Dr. Montaner serves on the board of Philadelphia FIGHT (fight.org), the city’s largest FQHC serving people living with HIV. The Montaner lab researches improving innate immune responses to HIV and cancer. He is Chair of the NIH Office of AIDS Research Advisory Committee (OARAC) and is Deputy Editor of the Journal of Immunology. Dr. Montaner is from San Juan, Puerto Rico.