The Laboratory of
HIV Immunopathogenesis
and Emerging Pathogens

Lishomwa Ndhlovu MD, PhD is a Professor-Elect of Immunology and Director of the HIV Immunopathogenesis Laboratory in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) and a faculty member of the WCM Cardiovascular Research Institute in New York.

After completing medical training, his scientific career began at Tohoku University in Japan were he received his PhD in Immunology and pursued post-doctoral training at the University of California San Francisco as an Irvington Institute Fellow of the Cancer Research Institute.

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Appointed to WCM in 2019, as a translational Immunologist a central theme of his research program is dedicated to confronting the challenges of HIV and Aging and is developing specific expertise and strategies to prevent, slow or eliminate complications associated with HIV with a substantive emphasis on the brain and cardiovascular system. His team combines immunology, epigenetic and virology methods and is exploring single cell and organoid model approaches to achieve optimal outcomes across the ages in this population. His largely supported by individual and consortia grants from the NIH and DoD and he has served extensively as a grant reviewer, including being a standing member on NIH HCCS grant review committee.

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The Ndhlovu Laboratory has also specific interests in pioneering discoveries for achieving a cure for HIV and strives to promote his research methods in disadvantaged settings with ongoing studies in Myanmar, Thailand and across Africa. He is an active member of the International Neuro-HIV Cure Consortium and the BELIEVE Martin Delaney Cure Collaboratory.  Recent work is now bringing the same urgency and focus to the COVID-19 pandemic and uses immuno-epigenetic approaches to resolve molecular mechanisms regulating SARS-CoV-2 infection across tissues and cell types and seeks to identify therapeutic host targets and future therapies that reduce morbidity and mortality.

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He has served in multiple editorial roles including being the current Co-Editor in Chief of the journal AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. He holds also an adjunct Professor appointment at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine and is committed to teaching students, fellows and mentoring junior faculty.