LUT VAN DAMME, M.D., M.Sc, Ph.D. International Clinical Research Manager, CONRAD (703) 276-4020 lvandamme@conrad.org Dr. Van Damme coordinates the international trials sponsored by CONRAD, CICCR, and GMP. She is also an assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at EVMS. Dr. Van Damme received her medical degree from the University of Ghent in 1988, a Diploma in Tropical Medicine from the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1989, an M.Sc. degree in epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1995, and a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences from the University of Ghent in 2004. She has practiced medicine at clinics in Belgium, France, Switzerland, and Mozambique; and worked in a refugee camp in Thailand.  Since 1995, she has been a research fellow at ITM with a focus on female-controlled methods of HIV prevention. Dr. Van Damme was the scientific coordinator for Microbicides 2002, an international conference to update scientists and public health workers on the status on microbicides research. She has published extensively on STI and microbicide research, including "Recommendations for the Clinical Development of Tropical Microbicides: An Update," published in AIDS in 2001.  She was also scientific coordinator for the Phase III HIV prevention study for COL-1492 (a nonoxynol-9 containing gel), the results of which appeared in the September 2002 issue of The Lancet.   « Back to GMP Staff page