Dr. Priya Pal is an infectious disease physician in St. Louis, MO, and specializes in HIV basic science and translational research. Her work centers on investigating how X4-tropic viruses are suppressed by the immune system in the presence of R5-tropic virus, during the early clinical stages of HIV infections. She additionally runs an HIV cure trial out of the Infectious Disease clinical research unit (ID-CRU) and serves on the inpatient infectious disease consult service.