CFAR Wide ESI HIV Cure Webinar Series

Tan Toon Seng, PhD, received his Bachelor’s/Master’s in Biomedical Science from the National University of Malaysia. He was awarded the MEXT scholarship from the Japanese government to pursue his PhD at The Joint Research Institute for retroviruses (HuRetro), Kumamoto University, Japan, where he studied HIV-1 host restriction factors. During COVID-19 pandemic, he pivoted into SARS-CoV-2 variants and their immune evasion strategies. In 2022, he joined Yu-Lichterfeld lab as a postdoc and started my project investigating reservoir profiles in people on long-term art, with a particular focus on sex-based differences. Dr. Toon Seng’s lecture will take place via Zoom.