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Treament Update 2011: the 18th CROI

2011-03-15T23:30:00.000-07:00

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Introduction by John Coffin
Antiretrovirals Panel
Interview with Bruce Brew
Metabolics Panel
Interview with Joel Galant
Aging Panel
Interview with John Coffin
Hepatitis Panel

CROI 2011: Kevin DeCock

2011-03-15T23:23:00.000-07:00

Kevin M. DeCock, MD, Director, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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CROI 2011: Pablo Tebas

2011-03-15T23:22:00.000-07:00

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CROI 2011: Salim Abdul Karim

2011-03-15T23:21:00.000-07:00

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CROI 2011: Nancy Haigwood

2011-03-15T23:19:00.000-07:00

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CROI 2011: Mitchell Warren

2011-03-15T23:15:00.000-07:00

Mitchell Warren, Executive Director, AVAC, NYC, NY

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CROI 2011: Norbert Bischofberger

2011-03-07T21:30:00.000-08:00

Norbert Bischofberger, PhD, Executive Vice President, Research and Development and Chief Scientific Officer, Gilead Sciences. Foster City, CA

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CROI 2011: Alberto La Rosa - Spanish

2011-03-07T06:57:00.000-08:00

Alberto La Rosa de la Asociación Civil Impacta Salud y Educación en Lima, Peru, nos habla de los resultados de varios estudios llevados a cabo principalmente por el ACTG. También pasamos unos minutos hablando en más detalle de un estudio de lo cual los dos estamos involucrados, A5234, que es un estudio diferente, donde la educación y la participación de un amigo/pareja de la persona tomando los farmacos está bajo la lupa (funciona tener un amigo como consejador/ayudante? qué tienen que saber? cuáles serán sus vínculos con el centro médico?).

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CROI 2011: Pablo Tebas - Spanish

2011-03-07T06:20:00.000-08:00

Pablo Tebas dirige la Unidad de ACTG de la Universidad de Philadelfia. Lleva años trabajando sobre los efectos secundarios. Un estudio suyo sobre la lipodistrofia se presentó aqui este año en Boston. Hoy en día su unidad centra mucho en la cura, las vacunas y los efectos del largo plazo del VIH, y nos habla de algunos estudios genéticos presentados aquí.

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CROI 2011: Nelson Vergel - Spanish

2011-03-07T06:15:00.000-08:00

Nelson Vergel es un nativo de Venezuela, y ha vivido años en Texas. Como persona con el VIH con muchos anos, ofrece mucha información sobre tratamientos complementarios además de los fármacos, suplementos como las vitaminas y la testoserona, por ejemplo. Hoy, nos habla sobre el estado de investigación en general de nuevos fármacos y nos ofrece algunas ideas sobre hacia dónde vamos. Tambien, mantiene una pagina en español.

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CROI 2011: Young Investigators Panel

2011-03-03T07:00:00.000-08:00

Five young Investigator awardees at the CROI speak to their challenges, what it takes to be a researcher, and what inspired them to get into the field of HIV research.

Panel:
Paul McLaren, Partners Research, Boston, MA,
Nicole Sunseri, Graduate Student, New York, NY,
Daryl Humes, Graduate Student, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research, Seattle, WA,
Marika Orlov, Graduate Student, Seattle, WA,
Margalida Rutger, PharmD PhD.

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CROI 2011: Women's Issues Panel

2011-03-03T05:51:00.000-08:00

Moderator: Yasmin Halima, Director of Global Campaign for Microbicides, Washington, DC.

Panel:
Carl Dieffenbach, PhD, Director, Division if AIDS NIAID, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD,
Samukeliso Dube, Johanesburg, South Africa,
Diana Dickinson, MD, Independent Surgery, Gabarone, Botswana.

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CROI 2011: Joel Galant on Prevention and Resistance

2011-03-02T21:53:00.000-08:00

Joel Gallant, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Dr. Galant provides his perspectives on biomedical prevention, including monitoring for toxicity, HIV infection, Hepatitis B infection, and behavioral issues. He also covers microbicides, drug costs in the face of limited resources, resistance, monitoring patients using treatment as prevention, deep salvage research issues, when to start HIV treatment, knowing your entire treatment history, and drugs going generic.

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CROI 2011: Italian-language Panel

2011-03-02T17:27:00.000-08:00

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CROI 2011: French-language Panel

2011-03-02T11:11:00.001-08:00

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CROI 2011: Igho Ofotokun

2011-03-02T11:04:00.000-08:00

Igho Ofotokun, MD, MSc, Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

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CROI 2011: John Coffin on basic science

2011-03-02T11:02:00.000-08:00

John Coffin, MD, PhD, (18th CROI – Chair) Professor, Tufts University, Boston, MA, Department of Molecular biology and Microbiology.

Dr. Coffin asks us to appreciate the importance of understanding how this complex virus works in great detail to be able to fight it more effectively. He speaks to his work with latent virus, and the potential for rediscovering old projects in basic science that with our evolving knowledge base will finally become more scientifically feasible.

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CROI 2011: Peter Anton

2011-03-02T11:01:00.000-08:00

Peter Anton, MD, Director, UCLA Center for HIV Prevention Research, Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

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CROI 2011: Jonathan Berger

2011-03-02T05:00:00.000-08:00

Jonathan Berger, MD, Senior Researcher and Head of Policy and Research, Section 27, Braamfontein Centre, Braembontein, South Africa

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CROI 2011: Moupali Das on community viral load

2011-03-02T04:57:00.000-08:00

Moupali Das, MD, MPH, Director of Research, HIV Prevention Section, City and County of San Francisco, Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA

Dr. Das and her group have been measuring the community viral load to assess the relative risks at acquisition of HIV in segments of San Francisco. She speaks to relative risk, as a marker not as a separate and exclusive specific approach to individual prevention. She covers how the research she and others have conducted have change policy to expand access to treatment to any positive individuals.

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CROI 2011: Ron Mitsuyasu

2011-03-01T22:45:00.000-08:00

Ron Mitsuyasu, MD Director, Professor of Medicine and Director David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Center for Clinical AIDS Research and Education, Chair - AIDS Malignancy Consortium

Dr. Mitsuyasu presents an opening summary of the work to be presented at the 18th CROI in the area of malignancies in HIV, such as KS, Lymphoma, Human Papilloma virus, related Cancers such as anal and cervical cancers, and non-AIDS Defining Cancers such as lung cancer, head and neck cancers and liver cancer.

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CROI 2011: Craig Hendrix

2011-03-01T22:44:00.002-08:00

Craig Hendrix, MD, Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences and epidemiology, Director, Drug Development Unit, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Dr. Hendrix presents study results in a microbicide prevention trial he conducted in women using comparing gel and oral doses. He also reviews several other microbicide trial presentations in an effort to describe the direction of research in Microbicides overall.

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CROI 2011: Ian McGowan

2011-03-01T22:44:00.001-08:00

Ian McGowan, MD, PhD, FRCP, Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA

Dr. McGowan has been working in the field of HIV prevention in Microbicide research. He provides the data for safety, efficacy. He speaks to the possibility of a combination product for broader protection, and a more specific product for the rectum and evaluate if there is a need for a product to be specific. He also provides some insight into the next steps to be taken in microbicide research.

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CROI 2011: Paula Cannon

2011-03-01T22:42:00.000-08:00

Paula Cannon, MD, Associate Professor, Microbiology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

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CROI 2011: Philip Gregory and Dale Ando

2011-03-01T22:40:00.000-08:00

Philip D. Gregory, Chief Science Officer, Sangamo Biosciences, Inc. Richmond, CA,
Dale Ando, MD, VP, Therapeutic Development and Chief Medical Officer, Sangamo Biociences, Inc, Richmond, CA.

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