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. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Begnel, ER, Ojee, E, Adhiambo, J, Mabele, E, Wandika, B, Ogweno, V et al.. The Linda Kizazi study: a comparison of morbidity and mortality from birth to 2 years between children who are HIV-unexposed and HIV-exposed, uninfected in the era of universal antiretroviral therapy. BMJ Glob Health. 2025;10 (1):. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2024-015841. PubMed PMID:39828431 PubMed Central PMC11748780.
  4. Lee, MJ, Litchford, ML, Vendrame, E, Vergara, R, Ranganath, T, Fish, CS et al.. Distinct immune profiles in children living with HIV based on timing and duration of suppressive antiretroviral treatment. Virology. 2025;602 :110318. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2024.110318. PubMed PMID:39612623 PubMed Central PMC11645197.
  5. Neary, J, Njuguna, I, Wagner, AD, Richardson, BA, Chebet, D, Langat, A et al.. Brief Report: Group-Based Trajectory Modeling to Determine Long-Term HIV Viral Load Trends Among Children With HIV in Kenya. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2024;96 (4):311-317. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000003439. PubMed PMID:39287566 PubMed Central PMC11408750.
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