Dara Lehman

Affiliate Associate Professor, Global Health

Dr. Dara Lehman's interests include viral dynamics, viral reservoirs and viral transmission. In addition, she has been involved in the development of multiple assays to detect HIV infection and drug resistance that work across HIV subtypes, and uses these assays in population-based studies. Her current projects involve cohorts of HIV infected women and their infants in Kenya to study the reservoir of infected cells that persist despite suppressive treatment with antiretroviral therapy, as well as a study of mother to child transmission of the virome (population of all viruses). For more details on her current research projects see: https://research.fhcrc.org/overbaugh/en/lehman-lab.html

Publications

  1. Begnel, ER, Maqsood, R, Holland, LA, Ojee, E, Owiti, P, Adhiambo, J et al.. Comparison of gut virome in Kenyan infants born to women with and without HIV. iScience. 2026;29 (3):114900. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2026.114900. PubMed PMID:41736871 PubMed Central PMC12927066.
  2. Sackey, SA, Schrum, JE, Mangalanathan, UM, Fish, RS, Sola, E, Selehi, A et al.. Modeling HIV infection, treatment, rebound, and intervention in human immune organoids. bioRxiv. 2026; :. doi: 10.64898/2026.01.25.701611. PubMed PMID:41659627 PubMed Central PMC12873895.
  3. Ojee, E, Odiyo, J, Adhiambo, J, Mabele, E, Omondi, V, Begnel, ER et al.. A cost analysis of postpartum home visit programming in Kenya: estimates to aid policymakers. Front Health Serv. 2025;5 :1644078. doi: 10.3389/frhs.2025.1644078. PubMed PMID:41323153 PubMed Central PMC12657431.
  4. Žuštra, A, Leonard, VR, Holland, LA, Hu, JC, Mu, T, Holland, SC et al.. Longitudinal dynamics of the nasopharyngeal microbiome in response to SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant and HIV infection in Kenyan women and their children. mSystems. 2025;10 (5):e0156824. doi: 10.1128/msystems.01568-24. PubMed PMID:40261064 PubMed Central PMC12090742.
  5. Reeves, DB, Litchford, M, Fish, CS, Farrell-Sherman, A, Poindexter, M, Ahmed, N et al.. Intact HIV DNA decays in children with and without complete viral load suppression. PLoS Pathog. 2025;21 (4):e1013003. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1013003. PubMed PMID:40184428 PubMed Central PMC12002518.
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