Preston A. Marx, PhD

Preston A. Marx is a career virologist with over 250 research publications and 45 years of experience, including 35 years in research on AIDS vaccines, vaginal microbicides, anti-retrovirals, AIDS pathogenesis in non-human primate animal models and origins of epidemic forms HIV in Africa.  He teaches an undergraduate course on emerging diseases from zoonotic sources, plus tropical virology lectures at the graduate level.  In 2010 his research on the origins of HIV in Africa was recognized by Discover magazine as #20 of the top scientific discoveries of that year. Before coming to Tulane, he was professor of microbiology at New York University.