Journal of AIDS & Clinical Research

Laurence Huang

Biography

 Laurence Huang is pulmonary and critical care medicine specialist with a research focus on pulmonary diseases affecting persons with HIV. Currently, he is PI/Co-PI on 3 main studies:IHOP: The International HIV-associated Opportunistic Pneumonias (IHOP) Study is a multi-national cohort study whose goal is to improve our understanding of the epidemiology, etiology, and outcome of pneumonias in persons with HIV infection. IHOP was part of the Lung HIV Study, a collaborative multi-R01 consortium established by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to examine a diverse range of infectious and non-infectious pulmonary diseases in HIV-infected persons.

Research Interest

 HIV-associated pulmonary diseases, Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP), Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB), Bacterial pneumonia, Pulmonary Kaposi sarcoma (KS), HIV-associated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), HIV-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), Intensive care of HIV-infected persons, Diagnosis of HIV-associated pulmonary diseases in low income countries, Application of microarrays and Next Generation sequencing to HIV-associated pulmonary diseases