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Peter Gilbert, Ph.D.

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Dr. Peter Gilbert, Ph.D., is an Associate Member in the Public Health Sciences Division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, where he is Co-Director of the HVTN Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention. He is also a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. In 2005-2006 he is the Ross L. Prentice Professor, a one-year tenured position designed to foster collaborations between the Center and the Biostatistics Department.

Dr. Gilbert has conducted research in HIV/AIDS clinical trials since 1994. He is an author on ~60 peer-reviewed articles in the areas of HIV/AIDS, balanced between statistical methodological and collaborative research. Dr. Gilbert has significantly contributed to the design and analysis of several HIV vaccine trials including Phase I/II safety and immunogenicity studies and Phase III efficacy trials. Specifically, Dr. Gilbert is senior statistician on several Phase I HVTN trials and was the lead statistician for the two VaxGen HIV vaccine efficacy trials. He also served as senior statistician for Phase III trials of antiretroviral therapies while at the Statistical Data Analysis Center for the ACTG at the Harvard School of Public Health, and for an HIV perinatal transmission Phase III trial in Botswana. Through collaborations with the Harvard AIDS Institute from 1997 to the present, Dr. Gilbert has had considerable experience in HIV vaccine research in Africa. Dr. Gilbert is currently a member of the NIH AIDS Clinical Studies and Epidemiology Study Section, AIDS and Related Research Integrated Review Group, and has served on DSMBs and other review committees.