Biomedical Research Team | NYU School of Medicine

Professor Nathaniel Landau

Faculty positions

2006-present Professor, NYU School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology

2005-2006 Full Professor, Salk Institute

1998-2005 Associate Professor, Salk Institute

1992-1998 Staff Investigator, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center

Postdoctoral Studies
1987-1992 Scientific Advisor: Dr. Dan Littman
University of California, San Francisco

HIV Entry
Virus Assembly

Graduate School

1980-1987 Supervisor: Dr. David Baltimore
Department of Biology, MIT

Immunoglobulin gene rearrangement
The role of terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase in antibody diversity

Takuya Tada

Postdoctoral Fellow

I have been working in the NYU as a Post-doctoral research fellow since 2016.

I received my Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry from the University of Tokyo in 2014. From 2012 to 2015, I worked at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Japan. My research interests are the relationship between HIV and host factors and immunity. Now I develop strong lentiviral vector vaccines against HIV, LCMV and cancer using mice models as well as exploring therapy against SARS-CoV-2.

Belinda Dcosta

Assistant Research Scientist

I received my B.Sc. and M.Sc. in biotechnology from University of Mumbai, India as well as a M.S. in Biology from Texas Tech University. During my Masters, I identified and characterized potential anticancer agents. I am currently developing therapy against SARS-CoV-2 and testing effectiveness of current SARS-CoV-2 vaccines against variants.

Vidya Chivukula

Postdoctoral Fellow

I received my Ph.D. in Virology at the Francis Crick Institute and University College London in 2021. My general scientific interest lies in lentiviruses, specifically HIV-1. I am currently working with primary human cells to further understand HIV-1 biology.