Brendan Larder
Doctor
Cavidi
Sweden
Biography
Brendan Larder is the Chair RDI Scientific Core Group. Dr Larder is one of the world's leading experts in the fields of HIV drug resistance and pharmacogenomics. He holds a PhD in Virology from Cambridge University. Dr. Larder discovered HIV drug resistance. His seminal work on AZT resistance and its genetic basis published in Science in 1989. Dr. Larder has continued to pioneer understanding in the field, unraveling the genetic basis of resistance to several other HIV drugs and developing many of the laboratory techniques for studying HIV drug resistance, including phenotyping and genotyping methodologies.
Research Interest
His research interest in drug resistance and pharmacogenomics