Distinguished Speaker Seminars
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DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SEMINAR
July 22 - 11 a.m. - Philip S. Low, Ph.D.
“Targeted Immunotherapies for Viral Diseases.”
Registration link will be available shortly.
RECENT SEMINARS
June 17 - 11 a.m. EDT - Maura Dandri, Ph.D. Professor, University of Hamburg, Germany
"Stopping a murderer: factors affecting the HBV cccDNA"
A recording is posted here.
April 30 - 9 a.m. EDT - Wenhui Li, Ph.D.
Investigator, National Institute of Biological Sciences (NIBS) Beijing, China
A recording is posted here.
March 18 - 11 a.m. EDT - Lei Wei, Ph.D., Fellow, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
"Making a murderer - Formation of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) Genomic cccDNA"
A recording is posted here.
Feb. 4, 2021 - Aleem Siddiqui, Ph.D., Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, University of California, San Diego
"Regulation of HBV/HCV infection by N6-methyladenosine modification"
A recording is posted here.
Jan. 21, 2021 - Ronald T. Hay, Ph. D., Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression, University of Dundee
"Molecular basis of arsenic treatment for acute promyelocytic leukaemia"
A recording is posted here.
Jan. 14, 2021 - Emilio A. Emini, Ph.D., FCPP, FAAM, Director TB and HIV Program Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
"Controlling the Global HIV and TB Epidemics: Challenges and Opportunities"
Co-hosted by the Pennsylvania Drug Discovery Institute
A recording is posted here.
Dec. 10, 2020 - Dongfang Liu, MBBS, Ph.D, Professor of Pathology, Rutgers N.J. School of Medicine
"Natural Killer (NK) cells from basic immunobiology to clinical application"
A recording is posted here.
Dec. 3 - Stephan Urban, Ph.D., Department of Infectious Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital
"Inhibitor of entry as a therapeutic for hepatitis B and D"
A recording will be posted here shortly.
Oct. 1 - Nicholas van Buuren, Ph.D., Gilead Sciences
"Integrated HBV DNA: Investigation of the Architecture and Potential Clinical Implications."
A recording is posted here.
Sept. 13 - Rudolf K. Beran, Ph.D., Gilead Sciences
“Characterizing the interplay between hepatitis B virus X protein and Smc5/6."
A recording is posted here.
Aug. 13 - V. Narry Kim, M.S., D.Phil, Professor, Seoul National University
"Viral hijacking of host functions to protect viral RNA"
A recording is posted here.
July 16 - Andrew Vaillant, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, Replicor Inc.
"Understanding HBsAg and subviral particles: key players in chronic HBV infection and key targets in achieving functional cure of HBV."
A recording is posted here.
June 30 - Marion Peters, M.D., University of California, San Francisco
Bruce Witte Distinguished Lecture, "Precision Medicine for Chronic Hepatitis B"
A recording is posted here.
June 18 - Scott L. Friedman, M.D., Icahn School of Medicine, N.Y.C.
"Mechanisms of Fibrosis Development in NAFLD and Therapeutic Strategies"
A recording is posted here.
June 4 - Mala Maini, M.D., University College, London
"Immunobiology of Chronic Hepatitis B"
A recording is posted here: