Upcoming Seminars 2024 – 2025
Thursday, December 12th, 2024 | 12:00 pm ET | BRB 251 Seminar Room
“Social Network Interventions for HIV Elimination”
John Schneider, MD
Professor, Medicine, Epidemiology, Social Work
Director, Chicago Center for HIV Elimination
Senior Research Scientist, Howard Brown Health – 55th
University of Chicago
Co-sponsored by the PDPH Division of HIV Health
Additional support by HIV Grand Rounds (Jointly Provided by Penn Medicine and ViralEd)
Tuesday, December 17th, 2024 | 4:00 pm ET | CRB Austrian Auditorium
“Structure-Assisted Vaccine Design for HIV-1”
Peter Kwong, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Columbia University
Co-sponsored by IFI
Wednesday, January 8th, 2025 | 12:00 pm ET
“HIV assembly, maturation, and drug resistance”
Eric O. Freed, PhD
Director, HIV Dynamics and Replication Program
Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute, NIH
Co-sponsored by the Department of Microbiology
Thursday, January 30th, 2025 | 12:00 pm ET | John Morgan Class of ’62 Auditorium
“HIV Prevention for Cisgender Women: Improving the PrEP Care Continuum”
Jessica Ridgway, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Infectious Diseases & Global Health
University of Chicago
Additional support by HIV Grand Rounds (Jointly Provided by Penn Medicine and ViralEd)
Tuesday, February 11th, 2025 | 4:00 pm ET
“Weaponizing and Mobilizing T Cells to Cure HIV”
Harris Goldstein, MD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics (Pediatric Allergy & Immunology)
Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Senior Associate Dean for Scientific Affairs
Charles Michael Chair in Autoimmune Diseases
Director, Einstein-Rockefeller-CUNY Center for AIDS Research
Co-sponsored by IFI
Thursday, March 27th, 2025 | 12:00 pm ET | John Morgan Class of ’62 Auditorium
“Using implementation science to enhance sexual wellness among people who receive care at safety-net clinics in the Southern U.S.”
Jessica Sales, PhD, MA
Associate Professor
Co-Director of the Emory CFAR Prevention and Implementation Sciences Core
Director of the Emory CFAR Implementation Science Hub
Co-sponsored by the Penn CFAR Implementation Science Core
Additional support by HIV Grand Rounds (Jointly Provided by Penn Medicine and ViralEd)
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025 | 12:00 pm ET
“HIV reservoirs: when, where and how does HIV hide?”
Nicolas Chomont, PhD
Associate Research Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Université de Montréal
CHUM Research Center
Co-sponsored by the Department of Microbiology
Thursday, April 24th, 2025 | 12:00 pm ET | John Morgan Class of ’62 Auditorium
(Title TBD)
Latesha Elopre, MD, MSPH
Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases
Assistant Dean for Diversity and Inclusion, Medical Education
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Additional support by HIV Grand Rounds (Jointly Provided by Penn Medicine and ViralEd)
Thursday, May 1st, 2025 | 12:00 pm ET | John Morgan Class of ’62 Auditorium
(Title TBD)
Ronald Joseph Ellis, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurosciences
University of California, San Diego
Co-Sponsored by PMHARC
Additional support by HIV Grand Rounds (Jointly Provided by Penn Medicine and ViralEd)