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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)

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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 AM

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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 PM

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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 PM

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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 PM

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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.
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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 PM

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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.

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Richard Keane
Senior Project Officer
Living Positive Victoria

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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

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