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The Steering Committee has just announced the preliminary program of the next edition of the workshop, to be held
December 6-9, 2011.
Toulon, France - April 08, 2011 - Despite major improvements in life expectancy and quality of life with
antiretroviral therapy, today's treatment cannot cure HIV infection. To try to eradicate HIV from infected individuals, researchers
must figure out where the virus hides and how persistent infection is established in these sites. They have also to screen and
test new kinds of drugs able to reach HIV in its 'dormant' state.
The prospect of efficiently controlling HIV persistence in infected persons without permanent antiretroviral
therapy is the hard task a group of researchers has addressed since 2003. By organizing every 2-year the "International Workshop
on HIV Persistence, Reservoirs & Eradication Strategies", they sum-up their current advances in the field.
The Steering Committee has just announced the preliminary program of the next edition of the workshop, to be held
December 6-9, 2011.
The previous workshops have been very successful with more than 150 top class scientists from all across the globe
attending it. The workshop is an excellent opportunity for these delegates to interact and share information with other
researchers, governmental agencies, patients representatives and pharmaceutical companies.
About the Workshop:
The top scientists who have devoted their efforts to this workshop include: Alain Lafeuillade, Department of Infectious Diseases,
General Hospital, Toulon, France, José Alcami, AIDS Immunopathology Unit, Institute of Health "Carlos III", Madrid, Spain; Monsef
Benkirane, CNRS, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Montpellier, France; Nicolas Chomont, Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute, Port
Ste Lucie, FL, USA; Tae-Wook Chun from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, USA; David
Margolis, University of North Carolina, Chapell Hill, USA; Robert Gallo from The Institute of Human Virology,
Baltimore, USA; Marie-Lise Gougeon, Antiviral Immunity, Biotherapy & Vaccine Unit, Pasteur Institute, Paris,
France; Mario Stevenson from the University of Miami - Miller School of Medicine, Miami, USA; and
François Barré-Sinoussi, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France, 2008 Nobel Laureate for Medicine.
Contact:
Alain Lafeuillade
Chairman
General Hospital
Toulon, France
Ph: +33-4-94616340
Email: lafeuillade@orange.fr
Website: http://www.hiv-workshop.com/workshop-2011.htm
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