Events

2014 Joint Symposium on HIV Research in Women

December 08, 2014

• Location: New Rochelle, NY
• Time: All Day

The 2014 Joint Symposium on HIV Research in Women is hosted by the Einstein-Montefiore Center for AIDS Research. The goal of the program is to identify gaps in knowledge related to HIV and women and develop strategies for future research to move the field forward, to generate collaborative research among the different CFARs and with other research networks, highlighting cutting edge science, and to promote and emphasize opportunities for young investigators.

The specific aims of the conference were to:

• HIV Eradication and Avenues to a Cure
• HIV Prevention
• Clinical disease and comorbidities

Confirmed speakers for the HIV in Women Research Symposium include:

HIV Eradication and Avenues to a Cure:

• Dr. Jonathan Karn, Estrogen Receptor and sex differences in HIV latency
• Dr. K. Luzuriaga, Pediatric
• Dr. Dan Kuritzkes, Clinical

HIV Prevention:

• Dr. Walid Heneine, Basic Science
• Dr. Dorothy Mbori-Ngacha, PMTCT B+
• Dr. Judy Auerbach, PrEP Implementation

Clinical Disease and Comorbidities

• Dr. Natanya Sandler Utay, Inflammation in non-communicable Disease
• Dr. Jennifer Smith, Cervical cancer prevention
• Dr. Serena Spudich, Clinical neurocognitive dysfunction
• Dr. Michael Yin, Bone and musculoskeletal disease

Date:  December 8-9th, 2014
Location:  New Rochelle, NY
For more information: http://www.einstein.yu.edu/centers/center-for-aids-research/cfar-womens-symposium/