Seminar Series

Upcoming Seminars 2025 – 2026

Thursday, December 18th, 2025 | 12:00 pm ET | Virtual Event

“Analyzing the Scale-Up of PrEP:  Leveraging Prescription Datasets to Develop New Insights”

Aaron Siegler, PhD

Associate Professor, Dept. of Epidemiology, Emory University

Co-Director, Prevention and Implementation Sciences Core, Emory CFAR

Additional support by HIV Grand Rounds (Jointly Provided by Penn Medicine and ViralEd)


Thursday, January 15th, 2026 | 12:00 pm ET | Virtual Event

“Immune-based therapies for HIV Cure:  Understanding and targeting the mechanisms of HIV Persistence”

Mirko Paiardini, PhD

Professor, Pathology & Laboratory MEdicine

Chief, Division of Microbiology & Immunology

Emory National Primate Research Center

Director, Next Generation Therapeutics, Emory CFAR SWG

Emory University School of Medicine

Additional support by HIV Grand Rounds (Jointly Provided by Penn Medicine and ViralEd)


Tuesday, January 27th, 2026 | 4:00 pm ET | (Location TBA)

SOSIP-trimer/mRNA combination for novel preventive and therapeutic HIV-1 vaccine regimens

Wilton Williams, PhD

Associate Professor in Surgery

Assistant Professor in Integrative Immunobiology

Co-Director, Training and Mentoring Program

Duke Human Vaccine Institute

Duke University School of Medicine

Co-sponsored by IFI/IH3


Thursday, February 26th, 2026 | 12:00 pm ET | Virtual Event

Inducing Broadly Neutralizing HIV Antibodies through Targeted B Cell Activation: Insights from Pre-Clinical and Clinical Trials

Leo Stamatatos, PhD

Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Department

Fred Hutchinson Cacner Center

University of Washington


Wednesday, March 4th, 2026 | 9:00 am ET | (Location TBA)

(Title TBA)

Hansel Tookes, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine

Division of Infectious Diseases

University of Miami

Co-sponsored by CCEB/DBEI


Thursday, March 19th, 2025 | 12:00 pm ET | Virtual Event

“Innovations in HIV PrEP Delivery in the U.S.”

Julia Marcus, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute|Dept. of Population Medicine

Additional support by HIV Grand Rounds (Jointly Provided by Penn Medicine and ViralEd)


Thursday, April 16th, 2026 | 12:00 pm ET | Virtual Event

“Innovations in HIV PrEP Access: Telehealth to AI

Jeffrey Klausner, MD, MPH

Clinical Professor of Medicine, Population and Public Health Sciences

University of Southern California