Associate Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School

Physician Investigator (Cl) Ragon PIs 2, Mass General Research Institute

Assistant Physician Infectious Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital

PhD Christian-Albrechts University 2006

cellular immunology; hiv infection; immunotherapies; infectious diseases; monoclonal antibodies; translational research and clinical trials

Dr. Boris D. Juelg is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He is a Member of the Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT and Harvard.

As a physician-scientist, Dr. Juelg aims to link preclinical and clinical studies to identify and test the most promising immunological strategies to prevent and treat HIV infection. He is specifically interested in evaluating passive and active immunization approaches using broadly neutralizing antibodies and novel vaccine candidates. In close collaboration with other investigators at the Ragon Institute, Dr. Juelg is conducting phase I/II clinical trials that are testing such concepts and translating findings from the lab into the clinic.

He is a member of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) Cure Transformative Science Group (TSG) and a member of the executive committee of the Harvard Center for AIDS Research.

 Dr. Juelg received an MD and PhD from Christian Albrecht University in Kiel, Germany. He completed a postdoctoral research fellowship with Dr. Bruce Walker before undergoing internal medicine training at MGH and a fellowship in infectious diseases through the combined program at MGH and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.