Keith Jerome
- Associate Member
- Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division
- Associate Member
- Clinical Research Division
- Professor, Laboratory Medicine
- University of Washington
- Head, Virology Division
- University of Washington
- Director, Molecular Virology Laboratory, Laboratory Medicine
- University of Washington
Other Positions
Graduate Faculty, Laboratory Medicine, Microbiology, Pathobiology, and UW/Hutchinson Center Molecular and Cellular Biology program, University of Washington
Hospital Positions
UW Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
Education
Duke University, 1993, MD
Duke University, 1992, PhD (Immunology)
Georgetown College, 1985, BS (Chemistry)
Current Board Certification and Licensure
American Board of Pathology (Clinical Pathology)
Washington state medical license
Research Interests
- Clinically important persistent and latent viral infections
- Curative therapies for latent viral infections
Clinical Expertise
- Real-time PCR
- Automation of nucleic acid extraction
- Diagnosis of disease caused by herpesviruses, enterovirus, JC and BK viruses, parvovirus B19, and hepatitis viruses
Current Projects
- Novel proteins (homing endonucleases) as potential treatments for latent and persistent viral infections
- Pathogen-host interaction during chronic viral infections, especially mechanisms for evasion of cell-mediated immunity
- Diagnostics for viruses posing the greatest threat to human health
- Dendritic Cell-Based Delivery for Genetic Therapy of Latent HIV Infection
- Hepatitis B Research Network Central Lab
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