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Annual: Herpesvirus Pathogenesis and Cancer Symposium

Will be held Friday June 5, 2026. Please take a moment to save this date on your calendar.

The symposium will take place at the University of Pennsylvania in the auditorium of the Biomedical Research Building II/III on Friday, June 5th, 2026. We look forward to welcoming you to the University of Pennsylvania!

Symposium Chair: Erle S. Robertson, Ph.D., Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Keynote Speaker: David Mahan Knipe, Ph.D., Higgins Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics in the Department of Microbiology at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.

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HERPESVIRUS: Pathogenesis and Cancer Symposium Posters by year

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
2019 2022 2023 2024 2025      
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Drs. Gertrude & Werner Henle pictured above. View the full presentation of
The Henle Symposium on Viral Oncogenesis.

The symposium is one day (8am to 5pm) and is free for all participants. There is no registration fee but individual attendees have to register so we can obtain a head count (typically 150-200 registrants). The meeting has been ongoing now for about 22 years. In June 6, 2024 Dr Robert Yarchoan gave the Keynote presentation. Previous keynotes include Drs. Don Ganem, Skip Virgin, Peter Howley, Elliott Kieff, Harald zurHausen, Lawrence Young, Carol Prives, Arnold Levine, Tom Shenk, Patrick Moore, Douglas R. Lowy and others.

Sponsors: 
WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING SPONSORS FOR MAKING THIS SYMPOSIUM POSSIBLE:

Collage of the following sponsor's logos: Perelman School of Medicine, Abramson Cancer Center, The Wistar Institute, Penn Dental, Penn Medicine Department of Microbiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Penn Medicine Department of Otorhinolaryngology