Richard Sutton, MD/PhD
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Biography
After finishing his undergraduate studies at Brown University, Dr. Sutton enrolled in the MSTP at Stanford, where he obtained his PhD degree with Dr. John Boothroyd, working on trans-splicing in African trypanosomes. He then completed a categorical residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and a fellowship in infectious diseases at UCSF. After post-doctoral stints with Drs. Harold Varmus, Dan Littman, and Pat Brown in which he worked on HTLV cell binding and entry and the development of HIV-based gene therapy vectors, he joined the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine. In 2008 he was recruited to Yale to continue his work on HIV replication and lentiviral vectors. Dr. Sutton spends approximately 50% of his time at the research bench and 25% in the clinical setting, both out-patient and in-patient, mainly at the West Haven VA (VACT). He is also the chief of Infectious Diseases at VACT, which takes up 25% of his time. Dr. Sutton took an administrative leave of absence in mid-April 2022, but he resumed all of his clinical, educational, and research activities before the beginning of 2023.
Education & Training
- Post-doctoral fellowUCSF then Stanford University (1998)
- FellowUC San Francisco (1993)
- ResidentHospital University of Pennsylvania (1992)
- MD/PhDStanford University School of Medicine (1989)
Activities
- Identifying Elite Controllers in UgandaKampala, Central Region, Uganda 2017Identifying Elite Controllers in Uganda
- Identifying and characterizing HIV+ elite and viremic controllersMek'ele, Tigray, Ethiopia (2015-2018)We have active collaborations with two sites in Africa to recruit HIV+ individuals who are able to control HIV in the absence of ART; we are actively exploring whether there is a genetic component to virologic control in these individuals.
Honors & Recognition
Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
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2013 Avant Garde Scholar | NIH-NIDA | 2013 |
Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Foundation Scholar | Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation (St. Louis, MO) | 2001 |
Pfizer Postdoctoral Scholar Award | Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company | 1993 |
Professional Service
Organization | Role | Date |
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NIH-NIAID & NIH-NIDA | Study Section | 2003 - Present |
Departments & Organizations
- Developmental Therapeutics
- Infectious Diseases
- Internal Medicine
- Microbial Pathogenesis
- Microbiology
- Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development
- Virology Laboratories
- Yale Cancer Center
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale Medicine
- Yale Stem Cell Center
- Yale Ventures
- Yale-UPR Integrated HIV Basic and Clinical Sciences Initiative