Charles Roberts, Ph.D., is Senior Advisor and Professor in the Divisions of Metabolic Health & Disease and Reproductive and Developmental Sciences at the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) and Professor of Pediatrics and Cell, Developmental, and Cancer Biology at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). He received his Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), in 1975. Following an American Cancer Society-supported postdoctoral fellowship, he was an Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at UCSB from 1978-1984. He was then recruited to the Diabetes Branch at the National Institutes of Health in 1984 as a Special Expert, was appointed Associate Chief of the Section of Molecular Physiology in 1989 with tenure, and was promoted to Senior Investigator in 1992. In 1994, Dr. Roberts was recruited to OHSU as Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Chair for Research. He was subsequently recruited to ONPRC in 2007. Dr. Roberts has been continuously funded by the NIH for >45 years, has served on >50 NIH and DOD grant review panels, has co-founded four biotechnology companies in the diagnostic and device space, and holds six issued patents in the clinical therapeutics and diagnostics area. Dr. Roberts’ current research is focused on metabolic comorbidities associated with antiretroviral therapy for HIV and long COVID using nonhuman primate models.