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UWM Anthropologist Studys African Monkeys With SIV

Jason Rieve
Tom Luljak and Trudy Turner

Every day, scientists around the world are engaged in a wide variety of research projects that could help answer the many questions surrounding HIV.

On this edition of UWM Today, we meet Trudy Turner, a professor of anthropology at UWM’s College of Letters and Science, who has spent decades studying African monkeys carrying a type of virus that is a close relative to HIV. But unlike humans - monkeys don’t get sick from their virus.  

Tom Luljak hosted UWM Today on WUWM for more than two decades and is the inaugural host of Curious Campus.