Dr Beatriz Grinsztejn

Director of the FIOCRUZ HIV Prevention and Therapeutic Clinical Trials Unit at FIOCRUZ

Biography

Dr Beatriz Grinsztejn is an infectious diseases physician-scientist with over three decades of experience in HIV research. Based at the Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases-Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she is the Director of the FIOCRUZ HIV Prevention and Therapeutic Clinical Trials Unit at FIOCRUZ. She is currently participating in several clinical trials looking at prevention and therapeutic strategies against SARS-CoV-2 and longitudinal studies on hospitalized individuals with COVID 19 and ambulatorial individuals with Long Covid and an investigator on the UNITAID funded project Expansion of testing, quarantine and telemonitoring strategies to contribute to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.