Jill Gilmour

Biography

Jill Gilmour’s comprehensive knowledge of HIV’s interaction with the human immune system comes from more than 20 years of HIV R&D experience. She is a founding member and Executive Director of IAVI’s Human Immunology Laboratory. She also leads IAVI’s Clinical Laboratory Program, overseeing research strategy, immune monitoring, data, quality, and scientific and laboratory capacity-building to support international HIV vaccine trials and epidemiology studies. She has helped 12 clinical laboratories in Africa and India come into being, shepherding them from founding through full accreditation. Long focusing on the epidemic in Africa, she is a founder and Scientific Director of VISTA (Vaccine Immunology Science and Technology for Africa). In this capacity, she develops strategic partnerships to encourage collaboration, technology transfer and training across Europe, the U.S., Africa and India to design and assess AIDS vaccine candidates for Africa, with Africa. Gilmour is Professor of Practice on the Imperial College London Faculty of Medicine and has an Honors Degree and PhD from the University of Edinburgh. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship with the UK Medical Research Council Direct Program of AIDS Research and helped the MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS develop its cellular immunology laboratory. 

Research Interest

 Her direct Program of AIDS Research and helped the MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS develop its cellular immunology laboratory.