Dr. Sampa Santra is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research (formerly Division of Viral Pathogenesis), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She received her Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology in 1996 from Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN. In 1997, she joined the laboratory of Late Dr. Norman L. Letvin in the Division of Viral Pathogenesis at BIDMC, Harvard Medical School as a postdoctoral fellow. Her expertise is to analyze T-cell mediated immunity in human and in non-human primates, infected with or vaccinated against HIV-1, SIV/SHIV and more recently SARS-CoV-2. She has also generated of several new strains of SHIVs expressing transmitted/founder HIV-1 env. Her laboratory is fully GCLP-accredited. She has served as the PI of the DAIDS NHP Core Cellular Immunology Laboratory Contract and the NHP Core leader for several P01 grants. Currently, she serves as the NHP Core co-leaders for Duke CHAVD grant, Pancoronavirus P01 grant and CIAVCR grant.