AIDS Clinical Trials Group Spotlights on Amita Gupta
Date: 02/19/2015
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ACTG Spotlight
The AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) Network recognizes researchers and staff actively doing great work. Spotlight highlights Dr. Gupta’s work in TB research in India.
Meet Amita Gupta
As a child, Amita Gupta, MD, witnessed infectious diseases firsthand while visiting extended family in India.
“I spent summers in India and saw the effects of polio, hepatitis B, tuberculosis and malaria,” she says. “Then when I was in college, I was galvanized by the world of HIV activism. I found myself more and more interested in working on HIV, volunteering at AIDS Action and Fenway Health in Boston. I later worked on HIV/AIDS at the Massachusetts Health Department.”