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Best Female Scientists

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117
Citations
60426
World Ranking
636
National Ranking
388

Microbiology

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114
Citations
60707
World Ranking
199
National Ranking
92

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118
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World Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Microbiology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Susan Buchbinder is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with a strong emphasis on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Virology. They also engage in studies related to General Health Professions and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics of their work revolve around HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, HIV Research and Treatment, and HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk. Additional topics include HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment, sex work and related issues, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, and reproductive tract infections research.

They have published extensively in several academic journals, with frequent publication venues including:

  • JAMA
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • AIDS and Behavior
  • The Lancet HIV
  • EBioMedicine

Their recent papers include the following works:

  • Antiretroviral Drugs for Treatment and Prevention of HIV Infection in Adults, 2022, JAMA
  • Antiretroviral Drugs for Treatment and Prevention of HIV Infection in Adults, 2020, JAMA
  • Postexposure Doxycycline to Prevent Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2023, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Consensus statement on the role of health systems in advancing the long-term well-being of people living with HIV, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Antiretroviral Drugs for Treatment and Prevention of HIV in Adults: 2024 Recommendations of the International Antiviral Society-USA Panel, 2024, JAMA

Throughout their career, Susan Buchbinder has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including Hyman Scott, Albert Liu, Diane V. Havlir, M. Juliana McElrath, and Matthew A. Spinelli.

In 2010, they were recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Preexposure Chemoprophylaxis for HIV Prevention in Men Who Have Sex with Men

    Robert M. Grant;Javier R. Lama;Peter L. Anderson;Vanessa McMahan

  • Genetic Restriction of HIV-1 Infection and Progression to AIDS by a Deletion Allele of the CKR5 Structural Gene

    Michael Dean;Mary Carrington;Cheryl Winkler;Gavin A. Huttley

  • Efficacy assessment of a cell-mediated immunity HIV-1 vaccine (the Step Study): a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, test-of-concept trial.

    Susan P Buchbinder;Devan V Mehrotra;Ann Duerr;Daniel W Fitzgerald

  • HLA and HIV-1: heterozygote advantage and B*35-Cw*04 disadvantage.

    Mary Carrington;George W. Nelson;Maureen P. Martin;Teri Kissner

  • Epistatic interaction between KIR3DS1 and HLA-B delays the progression to AIDS

    Maureen P. Martin;Xiaojiang Gao;Jeong Hee Lee;George W. Nelson

  • Uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis, sexual practices, and HIV incidence in men and transgender women who have sex with men: a cohort study

    Robert M. Grant;Robert M. Grant;Robert M. Grant;Peter L. Anderson;Vanessa McMahan;Albert Liu

  • Emtricitabine-tenofovir concentrations and pre-exposure prophylaxis efficacy in men who have sex with men.

    Peter L. Anderson;David V. Glidden;Albert Liu;Susan Buchbinder

  • Contrasting Genetic Influence of CCR2 and CCR5 Variants on HIV-1 Infection and Disease Progression

    Michael W. Smith;Michael Dean;Mary Carrington;Cheryl Winkler

  • Genetic Restriction of AIDS Pathogenesis by an SDF-1 Chemokine Gene Variant

    Cheryl Winkler;William Modi;Michael W. Smith;George W. Nelson

  • Studies in subjects with long-term nonprogressive human immunodeficiency virus infection.

    Giuseppe Pantaleo;Stefano Menzo;Mauro Vaccarezza;Cecilia Graziosi

  • Innate partnership of HLA-B and KIR3DL1 subtypes against HIV-1

    Maureen P. Martin;Ying Qi;Xiaojiang Gao;Eriko Yamada

  • Risk factors for HIV infection among men who have sex with men.

    Beryl A Koblin;Marla J Husnik;Grant Colfax;Yijian Huang

  • HIV-1 vaccine-induced immunity in the test-of-concept Step Study: a case–cohort analysis

    M Juliana McElrath;M Juliana McElrath;Stephen C De Rosa;Stephen C De Rosa;Zoe Moodie;Sheri Dubey

  • Antiretroviral Drugs for Treatment and Prevention of HIV Infection in Adults: 2018 Recommendations of the International Antiviral Society–USA Panel

    Michael S. Saag;Constance A. Benson;Rajesh T. Gandhi;Jennifer F. Hoy

  • Efficacy Trial of a DNA/rAd5 HIV-1 Preventive Vaccine

    Scott M. Hammer;Magdalena E. Sobieszczyk;Holly Janes;Shelly T. Karuna

  • Effect of a single amino acid change in MHC class I molecules on the rate of progression to AIDS.

    Xiaojiang Gao;George W. Nelson;Peter Karacki;Maureen P. Martin

  • Preexposure Prophylaxis for HIV Infection Integrated With Municipal- and Community-Based Sexual Health Services

    Albert Y. Liu;Stephanie E. Cohen;Eric Vittinghoff;Peter L. Anderson

  • HIV infection

    Unknown

  • Estimating the proportion of HIV transmissions from main sex partners among men who have sex with men in five US cities.

    Patrick S Sullivan;Laura Salazar;Susan Buchbinder;Travis H Sanchez

  • Antiretroviral Drugs for Treatment and Prevention of HIV Infection in Adults: 2022 Recommendations of the International Antiviral Society-USA Panel.

    Unknown

  • Time from HIV-1 seroconversion to AIDS and death before widespread use of highly-active antiretroviral therapy: a collaborative re-analysis

    A Babiker;S Darby;D De Angelis;D Kwart

  • GENETIC ACCELERATION OF AIDS PROGRESSION BY A PROMOTER VARIANT OF CCR5

    Maureen P. Martin;Michael Dean;Michael W. Smith;Cheryl Winkler

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth H. Mayer
Kenneth H. Mayer Harvard Medical School
Eric Vittinghoff
Eric Vittinghoff University of California, San Francisco
Beryl A. Koblin
Beryl A. Koblin New York Blood Center
James J. Goedert
James J. Goedert National Institutes of Health
Robert M. Grant
Robert M. Grant University of California, San Francisco
Stephen J. O'Brien
Stephen J. O'Brien Nova Southeastern University
Bruce D. Walker
Bruce D. Walker Harvard University
Mary Carrington
Mary Carrington Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard
M. Juliana McElrath
M. Juliana McElrath University of Washington
Connie Celum
Connie Celum University of Washington

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