Dr. Kyei obtained his medical degree from the University of Ghana Medical School. After internship at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, he served as a family physician for three years at Manna Mission Hospital. As a family physician, he treated adults with hypertension, diabetes, tuberculosis and HIV; children with complicated malaria and sickle cell disease and women with complications of pregnancy, helping with difficult deliveries and performing C-sections.  While working as a family physician, Dr. Kyei earned an MPhil degree from the University of Ghana where he characterized mycobacteria isolates causing tuberculosis in HIV and non-HIV infected patients. He immigrated to the USA in 2003 and earned a PhD in molecular genetics/microbiology at the University of New Mexico, working on molecular aspects HIV/TB interactions in macrophages. Subsequently, Dr. Kyei moved to Washington University in St. Louis (WU) where he completed internal medicine residency, infectious diseases fellowship and postdoctoral studies in HIV pathogenesis joining the WU faculty in 2014. His laboratory at Washington University is focused on understanding HIV persistence. Specifically, he is interested in the host factors that enable the virus to persist in patients in the face of anti-retroviral therapy and strong immune pressure. The goal is to identify and characterize therapeutic targets that will be useful for HIV cure. Dr. Kyei moved back to Ghana with his family in 2017 and was appointed as Senior Research Fellow at the University of Ghana’s Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR). At NMIMR he has established an HIV cure and pathogenesis laboratory with the help of funding from the EDCTP. Dr. Kyei regularly spends time at Washington University. He is passionate about helping to establish innovative research at the UGMC that will rival the best in the world. See faculty page for Dr Kyei’s research projects.