Events

2005 CFAR Scientific Symposium: Emerging Concepts in Antiretroviral Therapy

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This two-day symposium examined antiretroviral therapy (ART) from the research clinician's perspective, including novel applications of ART in patient settings, new data on early infection and transmission of resistance, and chemokine receptor biology in the context of patient therapy. The symposium also sought to foster and facilitate novel, multidisciplinary research collaborations between basic science investigators and clinicians.

Presentations

Welcome: Paul A. Volberding, MD and Diane Havlir, MD

Mentoring the Mentors Workshop for HIV Researchers (2019)

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The two-day workshop is an intensive and interactive meeting designed to provide mid-level and senior faculty in HIV research with the tools for more effective mentoring, especially of mentees of diversity (defined mainly as those from underrepresented racial/ethnic minorities). The workshops discusses barriers related to being an early career investigator of diversity (e.g.

2018 CFAR Scientific Symposium: Opioids and HIV

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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.