Dr Thomas Rasmussen
(03) 8344 3501 | rasmussent@unimelb.edu.au
- Position:
- Associate Clinical Director of HIV Cure Studies
- Theme(s):
- HIV
- Unit(s):
- The University of Melbourne
- Lab Group(s):
- Lewin Group
Dr Thomas Rasmussen is a Clinical Research Fellow in Professor Sharon Lewin’s laboratory. Thomas has a Doctor of Medicine degree from Aarhus University, Denmark in 2006 and has since been involved in clinical infectious disease medicine and HIV-related science with research activities primarily including clinical, translational and epidemiological studies. He completed his PhD in HIV in 2014, which was focused on the clinical use of histone deacetylase inhibitors to reverse HIV-1 latency. Thomas’ ongoing research is focused at understanding the barriers to curing HIV-1 infection and testing new strategies aimed at eliminating latent HIV-1 infection.
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Key Achievements
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Based at Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark, Thomas has led a pre-clinical study of histone deacetylase inhibitors and their potential use in HIV-1 infection. Subsequently, he was the principal investigator on a phase I/IIa clinical trial investigating the effect of the histone deacetylase inhibitor, panobinostat, on HIV-1 latency in patients with chronic HIV-1 infection. The primary results of this study, which was funded by a grant from The Danish Research Council, were published in The Lancet HIV in October, 2014. He is also an investigator on several on-going clinical studies investigating interventions aimed at the development of a cure for HIV.
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Lewin Group
The main focus of the Lewin group is to understand why HIV infection persists on antiretroviral therapy, to develop new strategies to eliminate latency and to define the biological determinants of immune reconstitution and factors that drive liver disease in HIV-hepatitis B virus co-infection.
Lab Team
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Dr Jasminka SterjovskiResearch Manager
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Dr Jennifer AudsleyPost-doctoral Research Fellow
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Dr Jenny AndersonPost-doctoral Research Fellow
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Dr Vanessa EvansPost-doctoral Research Fellow
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Dr Jori SymonsPost-doctoral Research Fellow
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Dr Jennifer ZerbatoPost-doctoral Research Fellow
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Ajantha RhodesLab Manager
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Surekha TennakoonResearch Officer
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Ashanti DantanarayanaResearch Assistant
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Dr Kasha SinghPhD student
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Dr Matthew PitmanPhD student
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Youry KimPhD student
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Zuwena RichardsonPhD student
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Haoming LiuPhD Student
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Rachel PascoePhD Student
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Jared SternPhD Student
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Wei ZhaoResearch Fellow
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Socheata CheaClinical Research Support and Systems Administrator
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Carolin TumpachResearch Support Officer
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