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Dr. Raymond received her doctorate in Microbiology and Immunology from Temple University School of Medicine in 2005. She completed two postdoctoral fellowships – University of Pennsylvania/Wistar, Philadelphia, PA and Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA before joining the faculty at Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University. Dr. Raymond is dedicated to understanding the mechanisms of HIV pathogenesis and developing novel therapeutic strategies to fight against HIV/AIDS. Through her research Dr. Raymond has designed and implemented several studies that directly examine the effects of HIV on immune cell function. While at the Wistar Institute Dr. Raymond performed translational studies where she used the bench-to-bedside concept to study macrophage responses to HIV infection in HIV-infected patients. Dr. Raymond initiated studies examining the role of macrophage-derived exosomes in HIV infection at Morehouse School of Medicine. She has published over fifteen peer-reviewed research articles. Dr. Raymond joined Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine in 2012 where she is building on her previous studies to make significant contributions to the research efforts in HIV/AIDS focusing specifically on NeuroAIDS and substance abuse, the role exosomes and HIV neuropathogenesis, and the development of novel nanotherapeutics to treat NeuroAIDS within the Department of Immunology.