Irini Sereti

Irini Sereti, M.D., Ph.D. is Chief of the Laboratory of Immunoregulation, Senior Investigator, and Chief of the HIV Pathogenesis Section at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She also serves as Acting Chief of the Clinical and Molecular Retrovirology Section and provides direct patient care at the NIH Clinical Center. Board-certified in Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine, her research focuses on HIV pathogenesis, HIV-associated CD4 lymphopenia and inflammation, immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS), idiopathic CD4 lymphopenia (ICL), immune-based therapies for HIV and ICL, and the pathogenesis of COVID-19.