The 5th Annual Malawi Cancer Symposium is a collaboration between the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. For more information, please contact ggomani@unclilongwe.org.
David Margolis, MD, is Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, and Epidemiology, and Director of the UNC HIV Cure Center. His research group has a long history of translational HIV research: investigating basic molecular, virological, and immunological phenomenon, and leveraging insights to develop new interventions in HIV disease. He … Read more
Marcia Hobbs, PhD, is a professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases. She conducts translational research focused on non-viral sexually transmitted infections; the lab supports a variety of research projects aimed directly at diagnosis, treatment and prevention of sexually transmitted infections or the use of these infections as bio-markers in evaluating biomedical or … Read more
J. Victor Garcia, PhD, director of the International Center for the Advancement of Translational Science and Oliver Smithies Investigator Professor of Medicine, is interested in how human viruses cause human cancer, how HIV causes AIDS, how SARS-CoV-2 causes COVD-19 and why the immune system is not able to control viral infections. The working hypothesis of … Read more
Michael Emch, PhD, is W.R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Geography and Epidemiology. He is also a Fellow of the Carolina Population Center. His expertise is in infectious disease ecology, spatial epidemiology, neighborhood determinants of health, and geographic information science applications of public health. He leads the Spatial Health Research Group which conducts research that … Read more
