Dr. Lingappa has been a faculty member at the University of Washington since 2004 and is currently an Professor in the Departments of Global Health and Medicine and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pediatrics. He received his B.A. in Physics from Swarthmore College, Ph.D. in Biophysics at Harvard University and M.D. at the University of California. He completed residency training in Pediatrics and a fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington. From 1998 to 2003, he served as an officer with the US Public Health Epidemic Intelligence Service and subsequently as a medical epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia.

Since joining the UW faculty, he has collaborated with Drs. Connie Celum and Jared Baeten within the Department of Global Health International Clinical Research Center to conduct HIV-1 prevention clinical trials and observational studies in African heterosexual HIV-1 discordant couples. More recently, his activities have focused on using samples and data from those HIV-1 serodiscordant couples cohorts to conduct translational research studies to understand the pathogenesis of HIV-1 sexual transmission and particularly to identify host biological correlates for risk of HIV-1 infection.