Theme A Session 1: HIV Persistence and Elimination
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Monday, September 24, 2018 |
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM |
Tuscan (Ground Floor) |
Speaker
Associate Professor James McMahon
Head of Clinical Research Unit
Alfred Health
The Clinical Research Path towards HIV Cure: Focus on the DIORR Trial
11:15 AM - 11:45 AMBiography
Dr McMahon is an Infectious Diseases physician and Head of Clinical Research at the Alfred Hospital, an ID physician at Monash Medical Centre and Chairs the ASHM ARV Guidelines Committee. His research interests are in HIV Cure-focused clinical trials, antiretroviral therapy and methods to maximise retention in HIV care.
A/PROF Lucette Cysique
Associate Professor
The University Of New South Wales
HIV Brain Latency As Measured By CSF Bcl11b Is Linked To Disrupted Brain Cellular Energy In Virally Suppressed HIV Infection
11:45 AM - 12:00 PMBiography
NHMRC senior research fellow at UNSW Medicine, Neuroscience Research Australia and St. Vincent's Hospital Applied Medical Research Centre. Leading NeuroHIV group at NeuRA.
Dr Jenny Anderson
Senior Scientist
Doherty Institute
Putting The Kill Into Shock And Kill Using Pro-Apoptotic Drugs With Latency Reversing Agents
12:00 PM - 12:15 PMBiography
Dr Jenny Anderson is a Senior Scientist in Prof. Sharon Lewin and Assoc. Prof. Paul Cameron's laboratory at the Doherty Institute at the University of Melbourne. Since 2012, she has studied HIV persistence in resting CD4+ T-cell subsets in HIV+ individuals on ART and new strategies to purge persistent HIV.
Mr Vincent Morcilla
Research Assistant
Westmead Institute For Medical Research
An HIV-Infected Individual On Suppressive ART With A Massive Expansion Of Effector Memory T-Cells Containing A Defective Provirus
12:15 PM - 12:30 PMBiography
Vincent is a Research Assistant at the Centre for Virus Research, Westmead Institute for Medical Research. He majored in Immunology and Biochemistry at The University of Sydney and is currently working with Associate Professor Sarah Palmer to explore the HIV reservoir.
A/Prof John Zaunders
Senior Scientist
St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney
Mapping the heterogeneity of CCR5+ CD4 T cells by high dimensional flow cytometry
12:30 PM - 12:50 PMBiography
John Zaunders has studied the effect of HIV-1 infection on T cell subsets for more than 20 years, using continually improving flow cytometry and transcriptomic techniques to delve into the increasingly complex immunology of this infection.
Chair
Richard Keane
Senior Project Officer
Living Positive Victoria
Sarah Palmer
Co-Director of the Centre for Virus Research at The Westmead Institute for Medical Research and Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney School of Medicine
Westmead Institute For Medical Research