CFAR Events

Penn CFAR Seminars and Events

The Penn CFAR coordinates and sponsors several annual events and educational activities.

Annual Events:

• Annual Seminar Series
• Annual Research Retreat
• Philadelphia AIDS Walk Teams

Educational Activities:

• Frontiers in HIV Medicine Course
• Bioethics and HIV/AIDS Course
• National Youth Leadership Forum
• Penn's Interdisciplinary Dialogues on AIDS (PIDA)

Special Seminars:

• Modeling siRNA- and TRIM5alpha-Based Gene Therapy Strategies for HIV/AIDS in Humanized Mice (September 6, 2006)

Other special events that the CFAR has coordinated include:

• Research Symposium: Nonhuman Primate Models of SIV/HIV Infection (October 18-19, 2007)
• Pre-Submission Workshop: "The Next Five-Year Cycle" 2010 - 2015 (September 25, 2007)
• Ninth National CFAR Research Symposium (November 17, 2005)
• The Challenge of Viral Reservoirs in HIV infection - Special Symposium (May 18, 2000)
• Advances in HIV/AIDS Prevention Research - CFAR/Annenberg (May 5, 2000)