Pontiano Kaleebu - GIISER Uganda
Prof Pontiano Kaleebu is the Director of the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), the largest government research institution dealing with diseases of viral aetiology in public health.His research interests include the study of the HIV virus and its resistance to drugs, immune response to HIV and other viruses, and vaccine development in Africa. He also studies emerging and re-emerging infections, including Ebola, Rift Valley Fever, Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever, and COVID-19.