HIV Drug Resistance Program
National Cancer Institute
NCI-Frederick, P.O. Box B, Building 535
Frederick, MD 21702-1201
Phone: 301-846-1250
Fax: 301-846-6013
E-mail: whu@ncifcrf.gov
Dr. Wei-Shau Hu received her Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of California, Davis, in 1987. She studied the mechanisms of DNA recombination that lead to human a-thalassemia in Dr. James Shen's laboratory. Under Dr. Howard Temin's guidance, she studied the mechanisms of retroviral recombination as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin. In 1991, Dr. Hu joined the faculty of West Virginia University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology and the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center. She was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 1998. She joined the HIV Drug Resistance Program at the National Cancer Institute in 1999. Dr. Hu is also an Adjunct Professor at West Virginia University.
