Dr. Charles Wood’s research includes basic and clinical/translational research in immunology, and virology. A majority of his work has focused on infectious viral diseases. Specially onHIV/AIDS and its associated cancer, the Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS), and its etiologic agents the Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV). More recently on cervical cancers and the human papilloma virus (HPV). The research topics are on how these viruses are transmitted, viral latency upon infection, the immune response, and how the infections can lead to cancers. The laboratory engages various approaches, from public health to cellular and molecular studies, immunological and genomics to understand how these viruses cause disease, so that strategies including vaccines can be developed to prevent infections and ultimately cancer development.
