Dr. Adhikarimayum Lakhikumar Sharma has been a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Translational Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, USA, since 2019. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Biotechnology. His diverse research interests encompass virology, HIV/AIDS, Molecular Biology of HIV, HIV immunopathogenesis, HIV latency, other infectious diseases, sexually transmitted diseases, viral co-infection, genomics, and proteomics, as well as the regulation of gene expression, epigenetics, transcriptional regulation, and transcription factors.