Elijah Paintsil MBChB, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Disease) and of Pharmacology

Departments & Organizations

2007 YCCI Scholars

Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology | Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology: DNA Dynamics

Yale Medical Group

Office of International Medical Student Education

Global Health Initiative: Infectious Diseases | Women & Child Health

Pharmacology

Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS

AIDS Care Program

Pediatrics: Pediatric Infectious Diseases | Pediatric Specialty Center

Research Interests

HIV translational research; cellular pharmacology of HIV-RT inhibitors in relation to clinical toxicities; Fitness and evolution of HIV drug resistant mutants; Molecular epidemiology and dynamics of HIV/HCV transmission more...

Education

• M.B.Ch.B., Ghana Medical School, 1992

Selected Publications

• Yang G, Paintsil E, Dutschman GE, Grill SP, Wang CJ, Wang J, Tanaka H, Hamasaki T, Baba M, Cheng YC. Impact of Novel HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase Mutations, P119S and T165A on 4'-ethynylthymidine Analog Resistance Profile. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2009 Aug 24
• Elijah Paintsil, Susan P. Grill, Ginger E. Dutschman, and Yung-Chi Cheng. 2009. Comparative Study of the Persistence of Anti-HIV Activity of Deoxynucleoside HIV Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors after Removal from Culture. AIDS Res Ther. 2009 Apr 22;6:5.
• Elijah Paintsil, Sergei Verevochkin, Elena Dukhovlinova, Linda Niccolai, Russell Barbour, Edward White, Olga Toussova, Louis Alexander, Andrei Kozlov, and Robert Heimer . Hepatitis C Virus infection among drug injectors in St. Petersburg, Russia: social and molecular epidemiology of an endemic infection. Addiction. 2009 Aug 27

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