Raiees Andrabi | Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania

Raiees Andrabi is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Raiees Andrabi earned his PhD degree from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Biochemistry and performed his postdoctoral work in Dennis Burton’s laboratory at The Scripps Research Institute. The overarching goal of the Andrabi laboratory is to design vaccine immunogens and strategies that elicit protective broadly neutralizing antibody (bnAb) responses against viruses with complex glycoprotein surfaces—and to translate these into effective human vaccines. Andrabi laboratory focus on two main areas: 1) Structure-guided immunogen design—leveraging structure- and in vitro directed evolution guided strategies to develop vaccines targeting challenging viral surface antigens, including those from HIV, arenaviruses, and coronaviruses. 2) B cell immunobiology—deciphering the affinity maturation pathways required for bnAb development during infection and vaccination, with the aim of guiding next-generation vaccine design. The Andrabi lab receives funding from the National Institutes of Health and The Gates Foundation.