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University of California, Los Angeles
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Biography
Dr. Martinez-Maza received his Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from UCLA in 1981, going on to do postdoctoral work at the Karolinska Institute (Stockholm), Pasteur Institute (Paris), and at UCLA. He has been a faculty member at UCLA since 1988, most recently serving as Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology (Vice Chair for Basic Research) and Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, as well as in Epidemiology in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Dr. Martinez-Maza also is a member of the UCLA AIDS Institute, where his laboratory is physically located, as well as the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. His primary research interest is the pathogenesis and molecular epidemiology of AIDS-related cancers. He is actively involved in several national and international multi-center studies, serving on the Executive Committees of the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS) and the AIDS Malignancies Consortium, and participating in Interlymph, an international consortium of researchers with an interest in the epidemiology and pathogenesis of lymphoma. In addition to this, he is on the external steering committee for the AIDS Cancer Specimen Resource, and is a member of the Human Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee, California Department of Health Services. He is currently the chair of the UCLA Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight (ESCRO) committee, and PI (joint with Roger Detels) of the UCLA site of the MACS.