Valeria Fink

Valeria Fink obtained her medical degree at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and was trained as an Infectious Diseases specialist at Hospital Fernández (Buenos Aires). Since 2007, she has worked in the Clinical Research area at Fundación Huésped (Buenos Aires), the largest NGO in Argentina serving people with and at risk of HIV/AIDS in Argentina, initially as investigator, then coordinating the clinical research site and, since 2022, as director of the Division of Innovation and Translational Research. She has participated in several projects, international cohorts, translational and epidemiological studies, with a special focus in cancer, oncogenic viruses and HIV. She has been part of the Caribbean, Central and South America network for HIV epidemiology (CCASAnet) (IeDEA Region 2), where she has participated in cancer related projects, that allowed the characterization of the cancer situation in the HIV population in this region.

She has developed HPV-related projects in different HIV+ populations (HIV+ women, HIV+ men who have sex with men and transgender women) with grant supports of the National Cancer Institute (Argentina).

She is a member of the UM CFAR/ Sylvester CCC– Argentina Collaborative Consortium for Research and Training in Virally Induced Cancers disproportionally affecting the Argentinian population at highest risk for HIV infection and AIDS, a NIH supported translational network for research in cancer and HIV, involving the University of Miami and reference basic science research centers in Argentina, where research and training in AIDS related malignancies are core issues.

Fundación Huésped became one of the four Latin American sites for the AIDS Malignancy Consortium (AMC) in 2018. Dr Fink has served as the Associate Chair for Latin America International Sites of the AMC since 2019.