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J. Fellay: Host genetic factors in transmission

Jacques Fellay, MD. is an infectious disease physician with expertise in human genomics research. He obtained his medical degree from University of Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1999. After 2 years of research in pharmacogenetics of antiretroviral agents, he received a clinical training in internal medicine and infectious diseases. He is currently working on HIV host genomics projects at Duke University, ...
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W. Heneine: Prevention of SHIV transmission in macaques by oral and topical AR prophylaxis

Walid Heneine, PhD. is currently the Team Lead of non-HIV Surveillance, Drug Resistance, and Antiretroviral Prophylaxis, at the Laboratory Branch, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. His research focuses on evaluating the efficacy of antiretroviral prophylaxis for HIV prevention using monkey models of rectal and vaginal transmission and identifying effective modalities that can inform clinical trial designs for ...
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E. Hunter: Nature, origin and diversification of transmitted HIV-1

Eric Hunter, PhD. is Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Emory University, Atlanta, GA. He is Co-Director of the Emory Center for AIDS Research and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar. Dr. Hunter’s career has included undergraduate studies in bacteriology at Birmingham University, England, and graduate work in tumor immunology carried out at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund & Brunel University ...
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N. Martin: Cell-to-cell spread

Nicola Martin is a PhD. candidate at the University of Oxford, working in the laboratory of Quentin Sattentau. She studied pre-clinical medicine at Oxford, graduating with a first-class honours degree in which she specialized in infection and immunity. This course led her to undertake an MRC-funded D.Phil. project investigating the cell-cell spread of CCR5 tropic HIV-1. In July 2009 she passed her examination and is currently awaiting graduation from her D.Ph. She has submitted a manuscript of the work ...
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J-P. Routy: Novel findings in transmission and primary HIV infection

Jean Pierre Routy, MD. is an Associate Professor of Medicine at McGill University Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is an active member of the Division of Hematology and Immunodeficiency Service at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. Dr. Routy received his MD in 1986 and completed his residency in Hematology-Oncology at the Université d’Aix-Marseille, France. In 1990, he was awarded a fellowship from the Université de Montréal to conduct immunological research in HIV-infected ...
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Z. Rosenberg: Overview on the use of microbicides, their role in HIV prevention

Zeda Rosenberg, Sc.D. is the founding Chief Executive Officer of the International Partnership for Microbicides, a non-profit product development partnership established to prevent HIV transmission by accelerating the development and availability of a safe and effective microbicide for use by women in developing countries. In addition to raising financial support for its product development efforts, IPM has focused on expanding access to promising products by acquiring royalty-free licenses from several major ...
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C. Williamson: HIV trans. and early CTL escape in HIV-1 sub. C infected individuals...

Carolyn Williamson PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IIDMM), University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. Dr Williamson received her PhD in Microbiology, from the Faculty of Science, University of Cape Town. Since then she worked as a Medical Natural Scientist for South African Institute for Medical Research and has been employed by the University of Cape Town (UCT) since 2002. She is head of the HIV Diversity and ...
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