Dr. Walker is a physician-scientist, the founding and current Institute Director of the Ragon Institute of Mass General Brigham, MIT and Harvard, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. His laboratory studies T cell immune responses to chronic viral infections, using HIV as a model system.

Dr Jillian Lau is an Infectious Diseases physician based in Melbourne, Victoria. She works clinically at Alfred Health and Monash Health and is a postdoctoral research fellow at The Doherty Institute. Her research focuses on HIV cure therapeutic interventions, and the practice of interrupting antiretroviral therapy in HIV cure trials (known as analytical treatment interruptions).

Jared Stern has a background in HIV reservoir biology and proviral sequencing techniques, having found that circadian rhythms and acute stress affect HIV transcriptional activity. They have been living with HIV for over 10 years and are passionate about scientific communication and community engagement.