Presentations By STI/HIV T-32 Trainees
STI/HIV T-32 trainees will present their projects.
The Institute partners with the University’s Division of Infectious Diseases and the Center for AIDS Research on a weekly conference series featuring distinguished clinicians and scientists from UNC, local universities, and other national and international institutions. The topics are varied and appeal to professionals in infectious disease, epidemiology, public health, microbiology, biostatistics and other global health-related disciplines.
The conference takes place each Friday, September through May, from 9:15-10:15 a.m. For the 2021-2022 academic year, we’ll be offering the conference online via Zoom. An email with Zoom link is sent out weekly; sign up (at left) for email notices if you haven’t already.
To suggest a speaker, contact conference coordinator Dr. Arlene Seña-Soberano or Kathy James.
Watch previous presentationsSTI/HIV T-32 trainees will present their projects.
The following fellows in the Training in Infectious Disease Technology (TIDE) T-32 Program will present their projects Diana Zychowski, postdoc Nicole Kelly, predoc Karen Diepstra, predoc Kelly Carey-Ewend, predoc Leah Sadinski, predoc
Mary Kearney, PhD, is deputy director of the HIV Dynamics and Replication Program the NIH Cancer Institute. Dr. Kearney conducts research on the emergence of HIV drug resistance, the persistence of HIV during antiretroviral treatment (ART), and the sources of rebound viremia after stopping ART. Her studies have demonstrated that a diverse population of HIV-infected … Read more
Chirag Desai, MD, FACS, is Professor of Surgery, Division Chief of Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Executive Medical Director for UNC Healthcare Center for Transplant Care, Surgical Director of the Liver Transplant Program, and Director of the Chronic Pancreatitis & Autologous-Islet Cell Transplant Program. Dr. Desai is an abdominal organ transplant and hepatobiliary-pancreatic surgeon with more than 15 years of experience. His special … Read more
Presentations By the following ID Path T-32 Fellows: Drs. Thomas Holowka, Martin Hsu, Allaura Cone and Farhang Aghakhanian.
The ID Path T-32 Program will welcome a guest speaker. More info will be posted soon.
Kenneth Mayer, MD, is a professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School, a professor in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and co-director of The Fenway Institute where he teaches and mentors medical students, residents, and fellows. His areas of research include international HIV/AIDS, Gay … Read more
Yonatan H. Grad, MD, PhD, is the Melvin J. and Geraldine L. Glimcher Associate Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Grad’s work uses interdisciplinary methods, including basic microbiology, mathematical modeling, and epidemiology, to study how pathogens evolve and spread through populations, with publications in Science, … Read more