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Citations
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World Ranking
69
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Immunology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Immunology in United States Leader Award
  • 1999 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1984 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Douglas D. Richman is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant work in immunology and microbiology. The scientist's subfields include infectious diseases, virology, emergency medicine, epidemiology, and immunology.

The main topics addressed in their research encompass HIV research and treatment, HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment, HIV/AIDS research and interventions, HIV-related health complications and treatments, COVID-19 clinical research studies, Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment, and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research.

Douglas D. Richman's recent publications include:

  • 2025 update of the drug resistance mutations in HIV-1, 2025, PubMed
  • Recommendations for measuring HIV reservoir size in cure-directed clinical trials, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • Antiretroviral Treatment of Adult HIV Infection 2008 Recommendations of the International AIDS Society-USA Panel, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Immune resilience despite inflammatory stress promotes longevity and favorable health outcomes including resistance to infection, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Virological suppression and clinical management in response to viremia in South African HIV treatment program: A multicenter cohort study, 2020, PLoS Medicine

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Nicolas Chomont, Huldrych F. Günthard, Bonnie J. Howell, Janet D. Siliciano, and Davey M. Smith.

Douglas D. Richman's work has been published in a range of scholarly venues, with notable contributions in UNC Libraries, Nature Communications, PLoS Medicine, Clinical Infectious Diseases, and Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

The scientist has received recognition such as being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1999 and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1984. They are also a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • The efficacy of azidothymidine (AZT) in the treatment of patients with AIDS and AIDS-related complex: a double-blind placebo-controlled trial.

    Margaret A Fischl;D. D. Richman;M. H. Grieco;M. S. Gottlieb

  • Identification of a Reservoir for HIV-1 in Patients on Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy

    Diana Finzi;Monika Hermankova;Theodore Pierson;Lucy M. Carruth

  • Recovery of replication-competent HIV despite prolonged suppression of plasma viremia.

    Joseph K. Wong;Marjan Hezareh;Huldrych F. Günthard;Diane V. Havlir

  • Treatment with Indinavir, Zidovudine, and Lamivudine in Adults with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection and Prior Antiretroviral Therapy

    R M Gulick;J W Mellors;D Havlir;J J Eron

  • HIV with reduced sensitivity to zidovudine (AZT) isolated during prolonged therapy

    Brendan A. Larder;Graham Darby;Douglas D. Richman

  • Update of the Drug Resistance Mutations in HIV-1.

    Victoria A Johnson;Francoise Brun-Vezinet;Bonaventura Clotet;Huldrych F Gunthard

  • Memory CD8+ T cells vary in differentiation phenotype in different persistent virus infections.

    Victor Appay;P. Rod Dunbar;Margaret Callan;Paul Klenerman

  • The major genetic determinants of HIV-1 control affect HLA class I peptide presentation

    Pereyra F;Jia X;McLaren Pj

  • Rapid evolution of the neutralizing antibody response to HIV type 1 infection

    Douglas D. Richman;Terri Wrin;Susan J. Little;Christos J. Petropoulos

  • Zidovudine in Asymptomatic Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: A Controlled Trial in Persons with Fewer Than 500 CD4-Positive Cells per Cubic Millimeter

    Paul A. Volberding;Stephen W. Lagakos;Matthew A. Koch;David K. Booth

  • Antiretroviral-Drug Resistance among Patients Recently Infected with HIV

    Susan J. Little;Sarah Holte;Jean Pierre Routy;Eric S. Daar

  • Antiretroviral Therapy in Adults: Updated Recommendations of the International AIDS Society–USA Panel

    Charles C. J. Carpenter;David A. Cooper;Margaret A. Fischl;Jose M. Gatell

  • Administration of vorinostat disrupts HIV-1 latency in patients on antiretroviral therapy

    N. M. Archin;A. L. Liberty;A. D. Kashuba;S. K. Choudhary

  • 2011 update of the drug resistance mutations in HIV-1.

    Johnson Va;Calvez;Günthard Hf;Paredes R

  • Isothermal, in vitro amplification of nucleic acids by a multienzyme reaction modeled after retroviral replication.

    John C. Guatelli;Kristina M. Whitfield;Deborah Y. Kwoh;Kevin J. Barringer

  • Immunostimulatory DNA sequences function as T helper-1-promoting adjuvants

    Mark Roman;Elena Martin-Orozco;Justin S. Goodman;Minh-Duc Nguyen

  • HIV-Specific Cd8+T Cells Produce Antiviral Cytokines but Are Impaired in Cytolytic Function

    Victor Appay;Douglas F. Nixon;Sean M. Donahoe;Geraldine M.A. Gillespie

  • Sexual transmission and propagation of SIV and HIV in resting and activated CD4+ T cells.

    Z. Q. Zhang;T. Schuler;M. Zupancic;Stephen W Wietgrefe

  • The challenge of finding a cure for HIV infection.

    Douglas D. Richman;David M. Margolis;Martin Delaney;Warner C. Greene

  • Antiretroviral Treatment of Adult HIV Infection

    Scott M. Hammer;Joseph J. Eron;Peter Reiss;Robert T. Schooley

Frequent Co-Authors

Davey M. Smith
Davey M. Smith University of California, San Diego
Susan J. Little
Susan J. Little University of California, San Diego
Joseph K. Wong
Joseph K. Wong University of California, San Francisco
Diane V. Havlir
Diane V. Havlir University of California, San Francisco
Huldrych F. Günthard
Huldrych F. Günthard University of Zurich
Daniel R. Kuritzkes
Daniel R. Kuritzkes Brigham and Women's Hospital
Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond
Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond Temple University
Margaret A. Fischl
Margaret A. Fischl University of Miami
John C. Guatelli
John C. Guatelli University of California, San Diego
Stephen A. Spector
Stephen A. Spector University of California, San Diego

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