Biography
- Jean-Pierre Routy has dedicated the last two decades bringing science and treatment innovation to help combat the health challenges of HIV/ AIDS care.
- His fight in health and AIDS related malignancies has led him to obtain the McGill University Louis Lowenstein Chair in Hematology & Oncology.
Research interests
- Dr Routy strives to bring basic laboratory research into fruitful clinical trials. The main focus is on understanding HIV pathogenesis
- restoring the immune system of individuals infected with HIV. Current studies include the use of interleukin-7 (a cytokine)
- or a dendritic cell-based therapeutic vaccine
- or chloroquine (a commonly used anti-malarial drug) in addition to antiretrovirals to optimaly manage HIV infection. He is also the principle investigator of a national cohort of patients recently infected with HIV
- which aims to understand the natural history of HIV infection
- concentrating on its effect in the gut