Mike Betts, PhD

Mike earned his Ph.D. in 1998 from the University of North Carolina in Dr. Jeffrey Frelinger’s lab working on human T cell responses to HIV. He continued this work during his postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Rick Koup at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and then at the NIH Vaccine Research Center.

Mike is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where in 2005 he started his NIH-funded lab and where he continues to research the immune response to HIV and other viral infections in humans, most recently working on COVID-19. Mike maintains active collaborations in Latin America, Europe, and Africa, where he is involved in both immunology research studies and training of new investigators.