Andrew J. Henderson is a Professor of Medicine and Microbiology and Assistant Dean of Graduate Medical Sciences at Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. He graduated from the University of California, Riverside, followed by his M.S. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences (Immunology) at the same university. He subsequently worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Columbia University from 1991 to 1997. He has served on NIH study sections and special emphasis panels and was a member and chair for the NIH AIDS Molecular and Cellular Biology Study Section. His research focuses on cellular mechanisms that regulate HIV replication and transcription. In addition to his research, he has always been proactive in undergraduate and graduate training and he is the current co-director of the BU PREP post-bac program.