CFAR Scientific Symposium

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CFAR Future Leaders in HIV Research Symposium
Keynote: Melanie Ott, MD, PhD

Friday, May 9, 2025
9:00AM-3:30PM PT
Gladstone Institutes, Mahley Auditorium

Agenda includes:
* Presentations by 2025 CFAR Early Career Research Excellence Awardees
* Presentation by Peter Hunt, MD
* Updates from Past CFAR Excellence Awardees
* Brenda Sanchez Retirement/Acknowledgement
 

The morning will include an applied session on Storytelling for Scientists as a 

The UCSF-Gladstone Center for AIDS Research will present the 2019 CFAR Symposium on Friday, May 31, 2019, in the Robertson Auditorium at the Mission Bay Conference Center. Organized jointly by the CFAR’s Administrative and Developmental Cores, the day will be a celebration of CFAR’s legacy in helping to catalyze the stellar HIV research happening here in San Francisco. We will be featuring the work of many former CFAR awardees/mentees who have gone on to be successful independent HIV researchers.

The purpose of this meeting is to update the San Francisco Bay Area (HIV research) community on the opioid epidemic and the current state of the science, especially as it pertains to HIV. We envision a broad scope covering national epidemiology and trends, an overview of the drug market (heroin versus fentanyl, an overview of clinical interventions available, a panel discussions on innovative uses of buprenorphine and safe consumption spaces, current research and interventions happening at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and policy and social justice developments.

Keynote Speaker

Speakers

Jim Pickett
AIDS Foundation of Chicago
“PrEP in Chicago – Spreading Tingle

Welcome: Paul A. Volberding, MD and Warner Greene, MD, PhD

Opening Address

• Haile T. Debas, MD
  Dean, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco

Morning Session

Moderator: Charles S. Craik, PhD

Keynote Address

• Possibilities for Eradicating HIV Infection
  David D. Ho, MD

Transmission

• Determinants of HIV Vertical Transmission
  Yvonne J. Bryson, MD
• Role of Dendritic Cells in Lentivirus-Mucosal Infection
  Melissa Pope, PhD

Vaccines

• HIV Vaccines
  Margaret I. Johnston, PhD
• DNA Vaccines

Keynote Address

• Immunity to HIV-Does it Matter?
  Bruce D. Walker, MD

Causes and Consequences of Virologic Failure

• Latent Reservoirs for HIV -1: Implications For Virus Eradication
  Robert Siliciano, MD, PhD
• HIV Therapy: Dynamics, Resistance and Reservoirs
  Doug Richman, MD
• Targeting Cellular Factors: An Alternative to Control HIV Rebound and Rebuild Immune Function
  Franco Lori, MD
• Behavior and Breakthrough

This was designed for all HIV/AIDS investigators. The symposium presented a comprehensive series of lectures. They reviewed the new basic, clinical, and behavioral studies providing insights into the biology of HIV prevention and treatment.

Keynote Address

• Facing the Social and Behavioral Challenges of the AIDS Epidemic
  Margaret A. Chesney, PhD

Session 1

Moderator: Charles C.J. Carpenter, MD