University of Lausanne

Angela Ciuffi is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Microbiology of the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and the University of Lausanne (UNIL) in Switzerland. She is also the vice-director of the School of Biology in the Faculty of Biology and Medicine at UNIL. Her research focuses on HIV-host interactions in the context of HIV replication, integration, latency and innate immunity. Her current work uses cutting-edge approaches and technologies, including epitranscriptomic and single-cell analyses, to further characterize the HIV-host cell interplay, capture the cell heterogeneity in response to HIV infection and identify cellular signatures associated with specific HIV-related phenotypes.

Harvard University

Dr R Keith Reeves is incoming Director of the Division of Innate and Comparative Immunology of the Center for Human Systems Immunology at Duke University. Dr Reeves did his PhD at the University of Alabama-Birmingham and was a postdoctoral fellow and faculty at Harvard Medical School. He has extensively studied NK cells and innate lymphoid cells in HIV and SIV infections, including the first characterization of memory NK cells in any primate species. His current research focuses on the role of NK cells in viral pathogenesis and immunological ageing, as well as harnessing NK cells for vaccines and antiviral therapeutics.

Weill Cornell Medicine

Lishomwa Ndhlovu, MD, PhD, is Professor and Director of the HIV Immunopathogenesis Lab in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Weill Cornell Medicine. After completing medical training, his scientific career began at Tohoku University in Japan where he received his PhD and pursued postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Francisco. His research programme is confronting the challenges of HIV and ageing and is developing specific strategies to prevent, slow or eliminate complications associated with HIV with an emphasis on the brain. He is a member of the International Neuro-HIV Cure Consortium and Co-Editor in Chief of the journal, AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses.

National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD)

Penny Moore is the South African Research Chair of Virus-Host Dynamics and Reader and Associate Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She holds a joint appointment as Honorary Senior Scientist in Virus-Host Dynamics at the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), University of KwaZulu-Natal, and Adjunct Member at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town. She co-directs a team of more than 15 scientists and 10 graduate students who work in the field of HIV vaccine discovery, combining virology and immunology. More recently, her group also started working on SARS-CoV-2, performing serology, neutralization and Fc effector assays.

University of Sydney

Professor Sarah Palmer is the Co-Director of the Centre for Virus Research at The Westmead Institute for Medical Research and Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney School of Medicine. Her research focuses on molecular and medical virology and the application of innovative techniques and assays, which provide new insights into disease pathogenesis and treatment for HIV and COVID-19. She received her PhD in medical sciences (virology) from the Karolinksa Institutet and conducted her postdoctoral studies at the Center for AIDS Research, Stanford University Medical School.

Kumamoto University Hospital

Professor Shuzo Matsushita is a physician-scientist who has been working on clinical and basic science of HIV-1 infection for over 36 years. He is the Director of the Joint Research Center for Human Retrovirus Infection, Kumamoto and Kagoshima Universities, Japan. He is an IAS Governing Council member, representing the Asia and the Pacific Islands region, and the President of the Japanese Society for AIDS Research. He was internationally recognized for his expertise in the field of neutralizing antibodies as early as 1988, including for his identification of the first neutralizing antibody, 0.5β, and its human-mouse chimeric counterpart, Cβ1, that protected chimpanzees from HIV-1 infection.

University of Leuven

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National Taiwan University

Chien-Ching Hung is an attending physician of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the National Taiwan University Hospital and Director and Professor of the Department of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology at the National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan. His research interests include clinical management of HIV-related opportunistic infections, combination antiretroviral therapy, amoebiasis, sexually transmitted infections and viral hepatitis co-infections. Dr Hung is a member of the Taiwan Infectious Diseases Society and Taiwan AIDS Society. He is currently the President of the Taiwan AIDS Society and leads the Taiwan HIV Study Group.

University of Chile

Dr Claudia Cortes is an internal medicine physician and infectious diseases specialist. Since 2005, she has been dedicated to HIV and AIDS in patient care and research. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at the University of Chile. She was a member and Chair of the HIV advisory committee of the Chilean Infectious Diseases Society (SOCHINF) and is now Vice President of SOCHINF. Dr Cortes is a consultant for the Chilean Ministry of Health, worked in the development and update of national clinical guidelines for HIV and AIDS management, and took part in several committees involving HIV prevention, testing and treatment strategies. She participates as investigator for the Caribbean, Central and South America network for HIV epidemiology (CCASAnet). In 2020, she was elected to the IAS Governing Council.

International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)

Kundai Chinyenze is a physician with almost 20 years of experience working in East and southern Africa in HIV and AIDS care and treatment and HIV prevention research. She serves in the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) as the Executive Medical Director, Clinical Development, leading the African regional team responsible for the design, implementation, analysis and reporting of clinical trials for candidate HIV vaccines and antibodies. Kundai’s research experience spans microbicides, HIV antibody and vaccine trials. Her goal is to contribute towards the development of affordable, effective HIV prevention tools for populations in need.

Pomeranian Medical University

Miłosz Parczewski, received his MD from the Pomeranian Medical University (PMU), Poland, in 2002 and PhD in molecular epidemiology in 2007. He specialized in infectious diseases in 2011 and is currently head and Associate Professor at the Department of Infectious, Tropical Diseases and Acquired Immunodeficiency at PMU. His research focuses on the molecular epidemiology in HIV infection and HCV co-infection: aspects of the genetic variability of the host with key interest in chemokine and interleukin receptor genes, HIV genetic variability, evolution of drug resistance and tropism, phylogeographic tracing of the viral transmission and recombination. He also investigates the association between genetic HIV-1 infection susceptibility and survival and variants of the host associated with drug adverse reactions. He is President of the Polish Scientific AIDS Society, a council member of the European Society on Antiviral Resistance, an editorial board member for the BMJ STI journal and the elected treasurer of EACS.

University College Dublin

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Duke University

Dr Thuy Le is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at Duke University School of Medicine and a Co-Director of the Clinical Core of the Duke Center for AIDS Research at Duke University Medical Center. She leads an international research programme spanning Vietnam, China and Myanmar to reduce HIV-related morbidity and mortality by developing novel diagnostics and treatment strategies for HIV-associated opportunistic infections. She led the multi-centre IVAP trial, demonstrating a mortality benefit of amphotericin B compared with itraconazole as induction therapy for HIV-associated talaromycosis, which has redefined international treatment recommendations. She currently leads an NIH-funded multi-centre study to evaluate a novel antigen detection assay for rapid detection of talaromycosis. She is a member of several leading committees, including WHO Guidelines Committees on Management of HIV and HIV-associated fungal infections.

Johns Hopkins University

Dr Vidya Mave is Leader and Director of the Byramjee-Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College-Johns Hopkins University (BJGMC-JHU) Clinical Research Site, based in Pune, India. She is Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr Mave has nearly 18 years of experience in clinical practice, education and research in infectious diseases. Her research interests include HIV and co-morbid infections, such as TB, as well as co-morbidities (HIV, diabetes) and the use of novel tools (hair PK, whole genome sequencing, host biomarkers) to study TB treatment outcomes.

Makerere University

Andrew Mujugira, MBChB, MSc, MPH, PhD, MACE, is a Clinical Epidemiologist and Senior Research Scientist at the Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Uganda. He has 12 years of experience with oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) efficacy trials, demonstration projects and implementation science and safety studies. His current research is funded by the National Institutes of Health and focuses on developing methods to build self-efficacy and empowerment, increase antiretroviral adherence and reduce sexual risk behaviours among key populations in Uganda through the use of evidence-based self-controlled HIV prevention tools (HIV self-testing, STI self-sampling, antiretroviral treatment and PrEP).

Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health

Dr Ayden Scheim is an Assistant Professor in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Drexel University in Philadelphia, USA, and holds adjunct appointments at Western University and St. Michael’s Hospital in Canada. He has over 15 years of experience conducting community-engaged research on HIV prevention, health and human rights among key populations. Currently, Dr Scheim leads transgender health studies in India, Canada and the USA, as well as a cohort study evaluating supervised consumption sites for people who inject drugs.

Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ)

Dr Izukanji Sikazwe earned her medical degree from the University of Zambia and completed internal medicine specialty training at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and infectious disease specialty training at the University of Maryland. Dr Sikazwe has worked for several years providing direct clinical care to people living with HIV and other infectious diseases in Zambia. She served as the technical advisor to the Zambian Ministry of Health National ART programme, from 2010 to 2012. In addition to her CEO role, she serves as the principal investigator of a CDC-funded HIV care and treatment award.

PATH

Dr Kimberly Green is PATH’s Director for Primary Health Care, overseeing six teams, including teams working on HIV and TB. She has nearly 30 years’ experience focused on health service delivery innovations and is passionate about advancing healthcare for all through community leadership and task-shifting, self-care tools like HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and self-testing, and innovative health financing. She holds a Master’s in International Health and Development from The George Washington University in Washington DC and a PhD from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Washington Department for Global Health.

National Cheng Kung University

Nai-Ying Ko, PhD, RN, is the Director and Distinguished Professor at the Department of Nursing, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University. Dr Ko is recognized as an advocate for social justice and health equity and human right advocacy for minority populations in Asia. Dr Ko started the HIV counselling and testing programmes in Taiwan in the early 1990s, initiated HIV case management models in 2005 and published Taiwan’s oral pre-exposure prophylaxis clinical guideline in 2016, all of which became Taiwan’s national HIV policy. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr Ko has led an interdisciplinary team to develop innovated technology devices (HEARThermo) in the prevention of cluster infections.

Johns Hopkins University

Sunil Suhas Solomon, MBBS, PhD, MPH, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA. He completed his medical training in India and received a Master’s in Public Health and a doctorate in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins University. Dr Solomon has been elected into the Phi Beta Kappa and the Delta Omega honours societies and has received a Director’s Award from the NIH. His research is primarily focused on the epidemiology, clinical management and access to prevention and treatment services for HIV and viral hepatitis, especially among key populations globally.

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

Teymur Noori is a psychologist and works at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) as an expert in monitoring and evaluation. He is primarily responsible for monitoring the HIV response in Europe and Central Asia, including monitoring the continuum of HIV care, and supporting efforts to monitor the response to viral hepatitis in the EU/EEA. He recently led efforts to develop a monitoring and evaluation framework for COVID-19 surveillance, preparedness and response indicators in the EU/EEA. Teymur also leads ECDC work on migrant health and infectious diseases. He recently led ECDC work to develop guidance on screening and vaccination of infectious diseases among newly arrived migrants in the EU/EEA, as well as guidance on infection prevention and control of COVID-19 in migrant and refugee reception centres in the EU/EEA.