HHV-6 Foundation - Scientists

Research Funded

Grant Title	Principle Investigator & Affiliation
HHV-6 Specific CD8+ T cell Responses	Sudhir Gupta, MD, PhD, MACP University of California Irvine, California USA
Development of a Variant-specific, Calibrated Real-time PCR Assay for the Absolute Quantification of HHV-6A and B Nucleic Acids in Clinical Samples	Mauro S. Malnati, MD San Raffaele Scientific Institute Milan, Italy USA
The Human Herpesvirus 6A U45 Gene Product: Role in Immune Dysfunction	Marshall Williams, PhD Ohio State University, USA
Variant Specific PCR ELISA	Yi-Wei Tang, MD, PhD Vanderbilt University, USA
Evaluation of the Antiviral Activity of Glycyrrhizic Acid on Herpesvirus 6	Francesca Curreli, PhD NYU School of Medicine, USA
Determination of the chromosomal integration of the HHv-6 virus in highly seropositive Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients	Daniel L. Peterson, MD Sierra Internal Medicine, Nevada, USA
The role of chronic immune stimulation by active herpesvirus 6 (HHV6) infection/coinfections in immune dysfunction and development of lymphoma	Daniel L. Peterson, MD Sierra Internal Medicine, Nevada, USA
Investigation of inhibitory effects of the multipotent drug Artesunate against HHV-6	Manfred Marschall, PhD Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Creation of a humanized CD46 mouse model for HHV6 infection	Claude P. Genain, MD California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francisco USA
Study of HHV-6 & EBV in patients with CNS Dysfunction and long-standing fatigue	Jose Montoya, MD Stanford University, USA
Use of recombinant viral proteins for the identification of active HHV-6 infection by serological assays	Louis Flamand, PhD, Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada, USA
Cloning the HHV-6 A and B genome for the identification of genes responsible for pathogenicity	Peter Medveczky, MD University of South Florida, College of Medicine, USA