Chaired by SNF Institute Director Charles M. Rice, PhD – 30 seminars and 16 posters representing the full range of SNF-funded infectious disease research and global partnerships at the Rockefeller University.
“Nuclear cGAS: from detection of viruses to cancer immunotherapy” Nicolas Manel, PhD Institut Curie and INSERM
“Leveraging International Cohort Studies for HIV Therapeutic Research” Sandhya Vasan, MD Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
The SNF Institute for Global Infectious Disease Research announces new advisory board
“Liver Cancer in African Americans: From a Clinical Observation to Genomics“ Andrea D. Branch, PhD Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Chagas Disease Educational Series kick-off
“Autophagy as a Non-Redundant Activity in Antiviral Defense in Humans” Trine Mogense, MD, PhD, DMSc Aarhus University
“Identification of Zika Virus Genes Involved in Mosquito Transmissibility” Shiho Torii, PhD Institut Pasteur “Mosquito Resistance to Dengue Virus Revealed by Single-cell Gene Expression and Metabolomic Profiling of Midgut and Fat Body” Thomas Vial, PhD Institut Pasteur
“Discovery and development of novel antimalarials and their use as chemical tools to discover new biology of the malaria parasite – Pharma/Academic collaboration” Alan Cowman, PhD The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
“The Vacuole Guard Hypothesis and Evolutionarily-Conserved Restriction of Pathogens” Ralph Isberg, PhD Rockefeller University
“The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science” Peter Jay Hotez, MD, PhD Baylor University
“Accelerating Academic Drug Discovery” Leigh Baxt, PhD Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute
“Emerging Technologies, Emerging Infectious Diseases, and the Role of Bioethics” Marguerite Lederberg Lecture Jeffrey Khan, PhD, MPH Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and Michael Parker, PhD University of Oxford
“Vaccines 2050” Rino Rapuoli, PhD National Institue for Pandemic Preparedness Fondazione Biotecnopolo di Sien
The SNF Institute at Rockefeller announced the membership of their International Advisory Board
“Complex Landscape of African Genomes: Implications for Human History, Health and Disease Disparities” Rufus Cole Lecture Charles N. Rotimi, PhD National Institutes of Health
“Insights and novel intervention strategies to interfere with hepatitis D virus persistence” Stephan Urban, PhD University Hospital Heidelberg
“Monoclonal antibodies against HIV: In Pursuit of Better Strategies” Rebecca Lynch, PhD George Washington University
“Chemical Biology of Atpase Mechanoenzymes: Targeting Viral Helicases” Tarun Kapoor, PhD Rockefeller University
“Engineering Poxvirus-Based Cancer Immunotherapeutics- from bench to bedside” Deng Liang, MD, PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center