A World AIDS Day Community Update on HIV Cure Research
Biomedical researchers, clinicians, and community leaders were among those presenting various perspectives at amfAR’s 2019 World AIDS Day HIV Cure Summit at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), on November 21. UCSF is home to the amfAR Institute for HIV Cure Research, established in 2015 with a five-year $20 million grant. Approximately 200 people attended the community update, which featured talks by leading experts in HIV cure research and members of the amfAR Institute for HIV Cure Research community advisory board.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21
1:00 – 4:00 P.M. Cure Summit
4:00 – 5:00 P.M. Reception
Robertson Auditorium
UCSF Mission Bay Campus
1675 Owens Street
San Francisco
Participants included:
Matthew Chappell, LCSW, ACM-SW
Manager, Care Coordination, Stanford Health Care
amfAR Institute for HIV Cure Research CAB
Steven G. Deeks, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
UCSF
Marcella Flores, M.P.H., Ph.D.
Associate Director of Research
amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research
Peter Hunt, M.D.
Associate Professor, Division of Experimental Medicine, UCSF
Co-Director, UCSF-GIVI Center for AIDS Research for Basic and Translational Science
Keith Jerome, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Head, Virology Division
University of Washington
Rowena Johnston, Ph.D.
Vice President and Director of Research
amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research
Satish Pillai, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator, Vitalant Research Institute
Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine, UCSF
Rachel Rutishauser, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Experimental Medicine, UCSF
Paul A. Volberding, M.D.
Professor Emeritus of Medicine, UCSF
Director, UCSF AIDS Research Institute
Director, amfAR Institute for HIV Cure Research
Loreen Willenberg
HIV Community Advocate
Founder and Executive Director
Zephyr LTNP Foundation
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