CFAR Academic Investigation Dinner Seminar & Soiree
(CFAR AIDS Soiree)
The Emory CFAR Academic Investigation Dinner Seminar and Soiree (CFAR AIDS Soiree) meets periodically throughout the year between September and May. Membership in the club is free and open to all people interested in HIV/AIDS-related basic, clinical, behavioral, social, or translational research as well as research-based clinical, prevention, and educational practice.
Past Speakers
Click here to link to webcasts and pdf copies of slide sets for some past speakers. Additional added as collected.
| 2006-2007 | ||
| September 19 | "Time to Report: A Summary of the XVI International AIDS Conference" |
Jeffrey Lennox, MD |
| October 17 | "The Virtues of Virtual Screening: Can Computer Models Streamline the Drug Development Path from Discovery to Clinic?" |
James Snyder, PhD |
| November 14 | CANCELLED: "Mad, Sad, and Bad: Syndemic HIV, Substance ABuse, and Mental Illness" |
Michael Blank, PhD & |
| January 16 | "The Origins of HIV-1: An Unexpected Twist" |
Beatrice Hahn, MD |
| February 21 | "Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Current Challenges Facing HIV/AIDS Prevention Trials" |
Carlos del Rio, MD |
| March 20 | "The Inevitability of Infidelity: Love, Gender Inequality, and the Social Organization of Marital HIV Risk in Rural Mexico" |
Jennifer Hirsch, PhD |
| April 17 | "1st Annual Emory CFAR Science Symposium" | Paul Spearman, MD (Emory) |
| May 2 | "Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack, a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in: Neutralizing antibodies and an HIV vaccine" (with apologies to L. Cohen) |
Dennis Burton, MD |
| 2005-2006 | ||
| September 21 | "Fighting the Odds: HIV/AIDS Prevention Research in the Worldís Most 'At-risk' People -- Married Couples in Africa" |
Susan Allen, MD, MPH Professor Hubert Department of Global Health Rollins School of Public Health |
| October 18 | "HIV Disease at the Atlanta VA: A 24 Year History" |
David Rimland, MD Chief, Infectious Diseases; Director, AIDS Research Center Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center |
| November 15 | "Through the Eyes of Child: Short films on AIDS by African Adolescents" |
Kate Winskell, PhD Assistant Director, Center for Health, Culture and Society; Visiting Assistant Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health |
| January 17 | "Preparing for a Different Type of Tsunami: YRG CAREís Response to HIV Disease in India" |
Suniti Solomon, MD Director Y.R. Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education Chennai, India |
| February 21 | "Some Like it Hot: Engineering Kinases for Nucleoside Analogue Activation in Suicide Gene Therapy" |
Stefan Lutz, PhD Department of Chemistry Emory College |
| March 21 | "25 Years of the HIV Pandemic: Lessons Learned" | James Curran, MD, MPH Director, Emory Center for AIDS Research Dean, Rollins School of Public Health Professor, Department of Epidemiology Emory University |
| April 18 | "Sex, Drugs & Circumcision: What Does a Person Have to Do to Survive HIV Infection Anyway" |
Kenrad Nelson, MD Professor, Department of Epidemiology Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University |
| May 16 | "The 'Holey' Grail: Two Decades of the AIDS Vaccine Quest" |
Mark Mulligan, MD Professor (Medicine), Division of Infectious Disease, Emory University School of Medicine Executive Director, The Hope Clinic Associate Director (Clinical Trials), Emory Vaccine Center Co-Director, Clinical Research Core |
| Inaugural Season (March-May, 2005) |
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| March 23 | "When Dreams and Reality Collide: Successful Strategies and Hidden Pitfalls in Delivering AIDS Antiretroviral to People in Resource Limited Settings" | Charles Van der Horst, MD |
| April 20 | "D.E.B.I. Does Dallas (and Atlanta, Miami, and New York): Getting the HIV behavioral intervention program that work off the shelf and into the streets (and clinics, and CBOs)" |
Charles Collins, PhD |
| May 18 | "All about EVE: The Science Behind Microbicides" |
Clyde Hart, PhD Jeffrey Lennox, MD |