First Name:
Jeffrey
Last Name:
M. Jacobson
Credentials:
MD
9 years 6 months
Bio:
Jeffrey M. Jacobson, MD is Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, and Director of the Center for Clinical and Translational Research in the Institute for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Disease at Drexel University College of Medicine. He has extensive experience in the care and investigative study of HIV-infected patients. His particular focus of research has been on the immunology and immunopathogenesis of HIV-1 infection, including vaccine, gene and other immune-based therapies, as well as monoclonal antibody development. He led early proof-of-concept clinical studies of hyperimmune plasma, neutralizing antibodies, and antibodies that inhibit cell entry by HIV-1.
He has chaired numerous clinical research studies of the pathogenesis, pharmacokinetics, and treatment of HIV-1 infection, and has chaired several AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) committees, including the Immunology Committee and the Translational Research and Drug Development Committee. He has also co-chaired the Long Acting Drug Task Force in the ACTG, and he hopes his studies of long-acting injectable anti-HIV-1 monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of HIV infection help in the efforts to energize the development of long-acting antiretroviral drug formulations.