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Robert T. Schooley, M.D.


Professor of Medicine,
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases.

UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive
Mail Code 0711
La Jolla, CA 92093-0711
Phone: 858-822-0216
Fax: 858-822-5362
Email: rschooley@ucsd.edu


Background
         Robert T. Schooley, M.D. is the Division Head and Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).  Dr. Schooley received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1974 and completed his medical house staff training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1976.  He completed fellowships in infectious diseases at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and at the Massachusetts General Hospital before joining the faculty of Harvard Medical School in 1981.

 

         Dr. Schooley began his research career studying the immunopathogenesis of herpesvirus infections in immunocompromised patients (1) but shifted his focus to AIDS in 1981 when the first cases of this syndrome began to appear in Boston.  His research group was among the first to delineate the humoral and cellular immune responses to HIV infection (2-4).  Over the next 15 years he became increasingly involved in the discovery and development of antiretroviral chemotherapeutic agents including reverse transcriptase inhibitors, protease inhibitors and entry inhibitors (5-7).  He was recruited to the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in 1990 to serve as Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases.  While at Colorado he was elected to serve as Chair of the NIAID’s AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) which he headed from 1995 – 2002.  During his tenure as Group Chair the ACTG expanded to include research sites in Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia and Africa and is now the largest and most productive multinational clinical and translational research organization focusing on the pathogenesis and therapy of HIV and its complications.

 

         He was recruited to the University of California, San Diego in 2005 where he now serves as Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases.  His relocation to UCSD was stimulated by the breadth and depth of the science at UCSD, the opportunity to shift his research focus to global heath and to develop a multidisciplinary HCV research program.  His current research interests include HIV and HCV pathogenesis and therapy and infections that cause morbidity and mortality in resource limited settings. 

 
      

 Research Interests
Dr. Schooley’s current research interests include the pathogenesis and therapy of HCV and HIV infection and infectious diseases found in resource limited settings.

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 Selected Publications

1.  Schooley RT, Hirsch MS, Colvin R.B, Cosimi AB, Tolkoff-Rubin NE, McCluskey RT, Burton RC, Russell PS, Herrin JT, Delmonico FL, Giorgi JV, Henle W and Rubin RH. Association of herpes virus infections with T-lymphocyte subset alterations, glomerulopathy, and opportunistic infections following renal transplantation.  N Engl J Med.  1983; 308:307-13.

2.  Blumberg RS, Paradis TJ, Hartshorn KL, Vogt M, Ho DD, Hirsch MS, Leban J, Sato VL and Schooley RT.  Antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) against cells infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus.  J Infect Dis.  1987; 156:878-84.


3.  Walker BD, Chakrabarti S, Moss B, Paradis TJ, Flynn T, Durno AG, Blumberg RS, Kaplan JC, Hirsch MS and Schooley RT.  HIV-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes in seropositive individuals.  Nature.  1987; 328:345-8.

 

4.  Walker BD, Flexner C, Birch-Limberger K, Fisher L, Paradis TJ, Aldovini A, Young R, Moss B and Schooley RT.  Long-term culture and fine specificity of human cytotoxic T-lymphocyte clones reactive with HIV-1.  Proc Natl Acad Sci, USA.  1989; 86:9514-8.

 

5.  Fischl MA, Richman DD, Grieco M, Gottlieb MS, Volberding P, Laskin D, Leedom JM, Schooley RT, Grooprnan J, Mildvan D, Jackson GG, Durack D, King D and the AZT Collaborative Working Group.  The efficacy of azidothymidine (AZT) in the treatment of patients with AIDS and AIDS-related complex: a double-blind placebo-controlled trial.  N Engl J Med.  1987; 317:185-91.

 

6.  Schooley RT, Merigan TC, Gaut P, Hirsch MS, Holodniy M, Flynn T, Liu S, Byington RE, Henochowicz S, Gubish E.  A Phase I/II escalating dose trial of recombinant soluble CD4 therapy in patients with AIDS or AIDS Related Complex.  Ann Intern Med.  1990; 112:247-253.

 

7. Wyles DL, Kaihara KA and Schooley RT. Synergy of an HCV NS4A Antagonist in Combination with HCV protease and polymerase inhibitors. Antimicrobial Agents Chemother, 2008; 52:1862-4

8.  Schooley RT.  Spino C.  Kuritzkes D.  Walker BD.  Valentine FA.  Hirsch MS.  Cooney E.  Friedland G.  Kundu S.  Merigan TC Jr.  McElrath MJ.  Collier A.  Plaeger S.  Mitsuyasu R.  Kahn J.  Haslett P.  Uherova P.  deGruttola V.  Chiu S.  Zhang B.  Jones G.  Bell D.  Ketter N.  Twadell T.  Chernoff D.  Rosandich M.  Two double-blinded, randomized, comparative trials of 4 human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope vaccines in HIV-1-infected individuals across a spectrum of disease severity: AIDS Clinical Trials Groups 209 and 214.  J Infect Dis.  2000; 182:1357-64.

 

9.  Schooley RT, Ruane P, Myers RA, Beall G, Lampiris H, Berger D, Chen SS, Miller MD, Isaacson E and Cheng AK for the Study 902 Team.  Tenofovir DF in antiretroviral-experienced patients: results from a 48-week, randomized, double-blind study.  AIDS.  2002; 16:1257-63.

 

10.  Frey G, Rits-Volloch S, Zhang X-Q , Schooley RT, Chen B, Harrison SC. Small molecules that bind the inner core of gp41. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA 2006;103:13938-43.

 

11. Wyles DW, Kaihara KA, Vaida F and Schooley RT. Synergy of small molecular inhibitors of HCV replication directed at multiple viral targets. J Virol. 2007; 81:3005-8.

 

12. Grünberger C, Wyles DL, Kaihara KA, and Schooley RT. Three-Drug synergistic interactions of small molecular inhibitors of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) replication. J Infect Dis 2008. 197: 42-5.

13.  Schooley RT and Mellors JW.  No Cure Yet for HIV-1 But Therapeutic Research Presses On.  J Infect Dis. In Press, 2007.

 

14. Smith DM and Schooley RT. Running with Scissors: Using Antiretroviral Therapy without Monitoring Viral Load. Clin Infect Dis. 2008; 46: 1598-1600.


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