Francois Villinger, DVM, PhD, Chief of the Yerkes Division of Pathology, graduated from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. The primary research interests of Dr. Villinger and his lab team are modeling human infectious diseases in relevant nonhuman primate models, particularly for those diseases without other models and those that do not reproduce human pathogenesis. These diseases include HIV/AIDS as well as infection models of XMRV, dengue fever and listeria.