Mar M. Sanchez is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, and Core Scientist and Chief of the Division of Developmental and Cognitive Neuroscience, Emory National Primate Research Center, Emory University. She received her Ph.D. in Neurobiology and Cell Biology from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, and has expertise in stress neurobiology and behavioral neuroscience. Her lab studies the neurobiology of stress and
emotional regulation using nonhuman primate models. Her main research focus is to understand how early life stress (ELS) affects the development of brain circuits that control emotional and stress reactivity from infancy through adolescence, leading to increased risk of psychiatric disorders, including anxiety, depression, and drug addiction. She uses a multidisciplinary approach, including analysis of neuroendocrine stress systems, social and emotional behavior, and brain development using in vivo neuroimaging techniques (MRI, DTI, PET, and resting state fMRI) and in vitro assays of brain neuropeptide and corticosteroid systems. Her research program is supported by NIH and NSF funding and by awards from private foundations (e.g., NARSAD).
Guido Silvestri is a core scientist at the Emory National
Primate Research Center. In addition, he is a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent
Scholar in Comparative Pathology as well as Executive Associate Dean of
Research Strategy and Chair and Professor in the Department of Pathology and
Laboratory Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. Since 1993, he has
been involved in studies of AIDS pathogenesis, prevention, and therapy, mostly
using nonhuman primate models of SIV and SHIV infection, with particular focus
on comparative studies of pathogenic and non-pathogenic primate lentiviral
infections. He is currently the principal investigator of several NIH grants,
including an R37 MERIT award. He is an Editor of the Journal of Virology, an
Associate Editor of PLoS Pathogens, and a past Editor of the Journal of
Immunology. He has served as Chairman or Standing Member in several study
sections at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Canadian Institutes of
Health Research, France's National Agency for AIDS Research (ANRS), amfAR, and
the European Commission. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of CROI and
the International AIDS Society Scientific Working Group on HIV Cure. He was a
Co-Chair of the 6th International AIDS Conference (PDF) in Rome (July 2011) and
the 9th International AIDS Conference in Paris (July 2017).
