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Dr. Roy Steigbigel is a professor of medicine and pathology, molecular genetics and microbiology, and pharmacological sciences at the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine. He also is the founding director of the Comprehensive AIDS Center, founding head of the division of infectious diseases, and chief of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at University Hospital at Stony Brook.

Dr. Steigbigel has published more than 100 journal articles. He has been honored with the Howard M. Temin Award in Clinical Science for Scientific Excellence in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS for an article published in Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and Human Retrovirology. He has received research support from Merck Research Laboratories, Boeringher-Ingelheim, Pfizer, Glaxo-Smith-Klein, Vical, and Wyeth for studies of anti-retroviral agents and vaccines for HIV and influenza.

Dr. Steigbigel earned his medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine, where he subsequently completed a straight medical internship. He then completed his residency in the department of medicine, and finished his fellowship in the division of infectious diseases at the Stanford University School of Medicine.