HIV Persistence, HIV Reservoirs and HIV Eradication Strategies Workshop
(NewDesignWorld Press Release Center) -- Toulon, France, February 04, 2011 -- The Fifth International Workshop on HIV Persistence during Therapy will be held from December 6-9, 2011, at the Radisson St. Martin Hotel in St. Martin, West Indies. Since 2003, the International HIV Persistence Workshop has been the top resource for those seeking information, help and guidance as the global fight against HIV continues.
The organization is responsible for the scientific reference workshop on HIV reservoirs, HIV persistence, and eradication strategies. While other meetings have introduced sessions about these topics, this organization offers a top notch program which is unanimously recognized for its originality, innovation and visionary qualities of its scientific committee.
Past workshops have concentrated on a variety of topics, from inhibition of HIV transmission to the biological and immunological challenges of acute HIV infection. The primary goal of these workshops is to understand and eradicate HIV from infected hosts. The past 8 years have seen enormous strides concerning HIV, and those involved have an ever increasing commitment to find an HIV cure.
The International HIV Persistence Workshops are conducted by those researchers, doctors and scientists who have achieved scientific breakthroughs in the field during the last decade. The topics explored are geared towards an understanding both of the mechanisms involved in HIV persistence in its reservoirs, and the possibilities of finding new strategies to use in order to eradicate HIV from infected hosts.
Every two years the 200 top scientists in the field are invited to participate in this workshop, bringing their cutting edge research into the open and revealing advances made in the fight against HIV. The workshop provides an opportunity for these brilliant minds to network and share information, and for the general public to gain a more thorough understanding of the challenges facing those who have devoted their lives to the battle against HIV.
From illustrated talks on the discoveries of basic science to overviews of the breakthroughs in immune response therapies, the presentations cover all the latest research in the field of HIV persistence and reservoirs.
The top scientists who have devoted their efforts to finding a cure for HIV include: Coordinator Alain Lafeuillade, Department of Infectious Diseases, General Hospital, Toulon, France, and the following Contributors: José Alcami, AIDS Immunopathology Unit, Institute of Health "Carlos III", Madrid, Spain; Monsef Benkirane, CNRS, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Montpellier, France; Nicolas Chomont, Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute, Port Ste Lucie, FL, USA; Tae-Wook Chun from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, USA; David Margolis, University of North Carolina, Chapell Hill, USA; Robert Gallo from The Institute of Human Virology, Baltimore, USA; Marie-Lise Gougeon, Antiviral Immunity, Biotherapy & Vaccine Unit, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France; Mario Stevenson from the University of Miami - Miller School of Medicine, Miami, USA.
Supporters of the International Workshop on HIV Persistence include the the ANRS (French Agency for AIDS Research), the NIH (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases), Abbot Virology, Boehringer Ingelheim , Gilead, Janssen - Cilag, ViiV Helathcare and Bentham Science.
To find out more about the Fifth International Workshop on HIV Persistence visit http://www.hiv-workshop.com/.
Contact:
Vincent Kapoulos
AVPS
1208 avenue Colonel Picot
Toulon F-83056
33494616340
lafeuillade@orange.fr
http://www.hiv-workshop.com
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