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Robert
Shafer M.D.
Div. Infectious Diseases, S-156
Dr. Shafer is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Pathology in the
Division of Infectious Diseases at Stanford University. His
research deals with the mechanisms and consequences of HIV evolution.
An online database (http://hivdb.stanford.edu)
created by Dr Shafer provides a public resource to assist
epidemiologists in performing HIV drug surveillance, physicians in
interpreting HIV drug resistance tests, and industry in developing new
antiretroviral drugs. Dr. Shafer is the Technical Director of the
Stanford Genotypic Antiretroviral Resistance Testing
Program. This program provides testing for the nationwide
surveillance program for HIV-1 drug resistance sponsored by US CDC. He
is the principal investigator for several NIH-funded programs in HIV
drug resistance.
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