Primary Job Title Founder Primary Organization 
PeptiVir
Location Aurora, Colorado, United States Regions Greater Denver Area, Western US Gender Female
Dr. Holmes is also Professor of Microbiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She earned her PhD from The Rockefeller University and completed postdoctoral research at Harvard University, and had faculty appointments in Georgetown University Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, and
the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences before joining the faculty of the Department of Microbiology in the University of Colorado School of Medicine in 1995. Dr. Holmes is an expert on viral envelope glycoproteins and virus receptors. She studies the receptor-induced conformational changes in viral glycoproteins that lead to membrane fusion and virus entry, and analyzes the role of receptor binding specificity on viral host range and evolution. She has published more than 170 papers and book chapters. Dr. Holmes served as President of the American Society for Virology and as a member of many editorial boards and NIH study sections. She is a Fellow of the AAAS and the American Academy of Microbiology.
