Upcoming Seminars 2025 – 2026
Wednesday, September 17th, 2025 | 9:00 am ET | Hybrid Event | 701 Blockley Hall & Zoom
“Estimating the Causal Effects of Extreme Weather Events and Other Large Scale Exposures on HIV Care Outcomes”
Denis Nash, PhD, MPH
Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
City University of New York
Additional support by CCEB/DBEI
Thursday, October 2nd, 2025 | 12:00 pm ET | Virtual Event
“The Active HIV Reservoir as a Therapeutic Target to Achieve HIV Remission”
Nadia Roan, PhD
Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institutes and Professor
University of California San Francisco
Additional support by HIV Grand Rounds (Jointly Provided by Penn Medicine and ViralEd)
Wednesday, October 15th, 2025 | 12:00 pm ET | (Location TBA)
“Shifting the Balance: Host-Directed Control of HIV Persistence”
Priti Kumar, PhD
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Infectious Diseases and Microbial Pathogenesis
Yale University School of Medicine
Co-sponsored by the Department of Microbiology
Thursday, November 20th, 2025 | 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)
Thursday, December 4th, 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, 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)
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, 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