Professor, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
University of Minnesota
Dr. Skinner is a Professor in the Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Skinner鈥檚 HIV research program focuses on understanding disease immunopathogenesis and the development of novel immunotherapy treatments for HIV. Her HIV cure efforts are based on findings that B cell follicles are somewhat of an immune privileged site where low levels of virus-specific CTL allow ongoing HIV replication. She is presently working to develop a cellular immunotherapy which targets HIV-specific chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells to B cell follicles to functionally cure HIV.