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Penn CFAR Annual Research Retreat

Ninth Annual Research Retreat

Friday, December 4th, 2009
Location: Auditorium and Lobby, Biomedical Research Building ll/lll
, 421 Curie Blvd, 19104

Agenda

 

8:00 a.m.

Registration and Continental Breakfast
Lobby, Biomedical Research Building II/III

8:30 a.m.

Welcome: James A. Hoxie, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology
Director, Penn Center for AIDS Research
University of Pennsylvania

8:45 to 9:10 a.m.

Carrie Kovarik, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Dermatology
University of Pennsylvania

Using technology to improve the diagnosis of HIV-related disease in resource limited settings  

9:10 to 9:35 a.m.

Robert Gross, M.D., M.S.C.E.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
University of Pennsylvania

Getting to the HAART of antiretroviral treatment success and failure in Botswana

9:35 to 10:00 a.m.

James L. Riley, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine & Pathology Cancer Biology
University of Pennsylvania

Building the bionic T cell to fight HIV-1 infection

10:00 to 10:15 a.m.

Break

10:15 to 10:40 a.m.

Kyong-Mi Chang, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine/Gastroenterology
University of Pennsylvania
Director, GI Hepatitis Clinic
Philadelphia Veteran’s Administration Medical Center

Mechanisms of  T cell immune regulation in HCV infection

10:40 to 11:05 a.m.

John Barton Jemmott, III, Ph.D.
Kenneth B. Clark Professor of Communication, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania
Integrating qualitative and quantitative methods in developing HIV prevention interventions: an example from South Africa

11:05 to 12:00 p.m.

Kenneth H. Mayer, M.D.                                 
Professor of Medicine & Community Health, Brown University
Prevention Science Core Director, Lifespan/Tufts/Brown Center for AIDS Research
Preparing for PrEP: Panacea or pandora's box?

12:00 to 1:15 p.m.

Lunch:
Additional seating on 2nd floor of BRB, in Rooms 251 and 252

1:15 to 1:45 p.m.

Philip R. Johnson, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
Chief Scientific Officer and Executive Vice President
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Roadblocks en route to an HIV vaccine:  Bypassing the adaptive immune response

1:45 to 2:10 p.m.

Michael Betts, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Microbiology
University of Pennsylvania

Kill or die: Cytolytic T cell function and dysfunction in HIV infection

2:10 to 2:35 p.m.

Chip Tilton, M.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow of Microbiology
University of Pennsylvania

CCR5 antagonists, viral resistance and implications for patients

2:35 to 3:30 p.m.

Julie Overbaugh, Ph.D.                                    
Member & Associate Program Head, Human Biology Division
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Is there a role for neutralizing antibodies in protection from HIV infection? Lessons from studies of naturally infected populations

3:30 to 5:00 p.m.

Poster Session and Reception
Lobby, Biomedical Research Building II/III

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

     
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