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Dr. Cunningham is Associate Professor of Medicine and Microbiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, and Harvard Medical School. He received a B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Michigan and an M.D. degree from Stanford University School of Medicine. After completing his clinical training in internal medicine at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before assuming his current appointments, Dr. Cunningham was HHMI Associate at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
RESEARCH ABSTRACT SUMMARY:
James Cunningham and his colleagues have identified proteins on the surface membrane of cells that are required for attachment and infection of retroviruses. They are studying how retroviruses use these proteins to gain entry to the host cell.
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