Graeme Meintjes

Graeme Meintjes is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Clinical Professor of Infectious Diseases at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). He is an adult Infectious Diseases physician and clinician scientist. He leads a research programme that focuses on the clinical conditions affecting patients with advanced HIV disease including disseminated HIV-associated tuberculosis, the immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome and cryptococcal meningitis. His group also investigates drug-resistant tuberculosis, diagnostics for TB and antiretroviral therapy strategies. He has been the PI or local PI of several clinical trials and conducts observational cohort studies that address questions related to disease pathogenesis. He has been chair or co-chair of the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society Adult ART Guidelines Committee for more than a decade and has participated in several WHO Guideline Development Groups in the fields of HIV, opportunistic infections, TB and Mpox.