Dr. Roy Mugerwa is professor and past chairman at Makerere University's Department of Medicine. He is the Uganda-based principal investigator (PI) for the on-going Tuberculosis Research Projects funded by the National Institutes of Health, and the PI for joint projects between Makerere University and University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey. He was the PI for the first preventive HIV vaccine trial in Africa. Dr. Mugerwa was one of the first African scientists to identify AIDS in Uganda and has been principal investigator for various clinical and epidemiological trials of HIV-associated tuberculosis, including two successfully completed IND studies, in addition to being principal investigator of various intervention studies to prevent HIV transmission in women.