Nicolas Chomont

Dr Nicolas Chomont is an Associate professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Université de Montréal – CHUM Research Center. He obtained his PhD in medical virology at Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris where he studied the interactions between HIV and the genital mucosa. From 2004 to 2009, he joined the Université de Montréal for his post-doctoral training. During this time, he described subsets of memory CD4 T cells that contribute to the persistence of HIV in individuals receiving antiretroviral therapy. He pursued his research as a principal investigator at the Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute of Florida to characterize these reservoirs. Since 2015, at the Université de Montréal, Dr Chomont is overseeing studies to unravel the molecular mechanisms involved in HIV latency and to develop novel therapeutic strategies aimed at eradicating HIV. His work focuses on the immunological mechanisms that are involved in the persistence of HIV infected cells, and particularly on the role of T cell proliferation in that process.