Hey everyone! Welcome to all of our new supporters! Thanks for joining, and encourage your friends to check us out 🙂 below are two really exciting events coming up,,,check them out!
Save the Dates!
World AIDS Day 2014
Tuesday, December 2nd
In honor of World AIDS Day, the CFAR will be hosting a scientific symposium featuring talks from prestigious experts in the AIDS community and research posters from undergraduate and graduate students and post-doctoral associates training at UR.
This year’s keynote addresses will be given by Robert Siliciano, MD, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Jessica Haberer, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital.
NYC HIV/AIDS Event
Thursday, January 15, starting at 6:30 p.m. – NYC
The University of Rochester has been a leader in HIV/AIDS research for nearly 30 years. Most recently, we were designated by NIH as a Center for AIDS Research (CFAR). We now have two goals to complete in less than five years: to be the world’s first Center to test a new first-in-class therapy in people to prevent severe HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders; and to conduct the first test of a new treatment to save the lives of a half million persons with HIV/AIDS who currently die from meningitis caused by a deadly, but neglected, fungal pathogen.
For further information, please view our recently produced HIV/AIDS video: http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/giving/videos.aspx.
One of our most notable alumni, Dr. Michael Gottlieb ’73 MD, ’77 Res, (one of the founding directors of amfAR, the American Foundation for AIDS research; and the person to first recognize and describe AIDS as a unique illness) will be joining us to tell his story and to present on, “The World Without AIDS”. Also in attendance will be Dean & CEO Mark Taubman, Stephen Dewhurst, PhD, and Dr. Mike Keefer.
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