BASIC IMMUNOLOGY ABBAS PENN STATE TRIAL
Participating in a clinical trial at Penn State Health Milton S. She has been funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1993. Parent is a highly respected physician-scientist whose research focuses on understanding how retroviruses, including the human immunodeficiency virus, co-opt cellular machinery to assemble new virus particles to spread infection. Hershey Medical Center and was appointed as an assistant professor in 1995.ĭr. She completed the infectious disease fellowship and a postdoctoral fellowship in retrovirology at Penn State Health Milton S. Parent received her MD from Duke University School of Medicine in 1987 and completed her residency in internal medicine, in the clinician-investigator pathway, at Duke from 1987 to 1991. She is also a member of Penn State Cancer Institute, working as part of the Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis research program, and is co-director of the College’s MD/PhD Medical Scientist Training Program.ĭr.
She is a professor in the Department of Medicine – where she is part of the Division of Infectious Diseases – and in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. Parent also serves as Associate Vice President for Health Sciences Research, The Pennsylvania State University. Research and graduate research education at the College of Medicine are under the direction of Leslie Parent, MD, Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Studies.ĭr. Leslie Parent, MD, is Vice Dean of Research and Graduate Studies at Penn State College of Medicine.