Sharon Lewin

Professor Sharon Lewin is the inaugural Director of the Doherty Institute, a Professor of Medicine at The University of Melbourne, and a NHMRC Practitioner Fellow. Her work spans basic, translational, and clinical research to find a cure for HIV and understand HIV-hepatitis B interactions.

• Research Interests include HIV latency models, latency-reversing agents, clinical trials for HIV cure interventions, and co-infections like HIV-HBV. She leads the International AIDS Society’s Towards an HIV Cure initiative and the NHMRC CRE APPRISE for infectious disease emergency preparedness.
• Recent Articles focus on CRISPR-based HBV therapies, HIV transmission dynamics in Australia, optimized vaccine protocols for immunocompromised populations, and liver disease progression in co-infected patients.
• Awards: Melburnian of the Year (2014), Peter Wills Medal (2015), Officer of the Order of Australia (2019).
• Funding includes NHMRC, NIH, Wellcome Trust, amfAR, and commercial partnerships.
• Leadership Roles: Chair of the Ministerial Advisory Committee for Blood Borne Viruses, NHMRC Council member, and elected representative to the International AIDS Society’s Governing Council (Asia-Pacific).