Sequencing SARS-CoV-2: What can we do, what can we learn?
Virtual via Zoom 130 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, North CarolinaPresented by Dirk Dittmer, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology at UNC
Presented by Dirk Dittmer, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology at UNC
Srilatha Edupuganti, MD, MPH, is an associate professor of infectious diseases at Emory University, where she leads HIV vaccine development as the Hope Clinic Clinical Research Site Leader for the Emory Clinical Trials Unit. She has a broad interest in vaccine development for multiple pathogens, including flaviviruses, influenza, and COVID-19, and she leads multiple translational … Continued
Presented by Brenna L. Hughes, MD, MSc. Hughes serves as chief of the Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine and Vice Chair for Quality and Obstetrics at Duke University. She joined Duke in 2016 from Brown University and Women & Infants Hospital in Providence, R.I., where she was associate professor, director of the maternal fetal medicine fellowship, … Continued
Presented by Larry Corey, MD Past President and Director, Professor of Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Professor, Medicine and Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington Corey is an internationally renowned expert in virology, immunology and vaccine development. His research focuses on herpes viruses, HIV, the novel coronavirus, and other viral infections, … Continued
Presented by David Wohl, MD, professor of medicine, UNC Division of Infectious Diseases Wohl is site leader of UNC's Global Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Group at Chapel Hill. For the past year, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Wohl has been serving as medical director of the COVID-19 vaccination clinics at UNC Health’s Friday Center and Hillsborough … Continued
Presented by Thomas Holland, Dr. Thomas L. Holland, MD, MSc-GH, associate professor of infectious diseases at Duke University and a faculty member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute. His research interests include antibacterial trials, particularly for S. aureus bacteremia and antibiotic-resistant pathogens, as well as the design and implementation of novel clinical trial endpoints including … Continued
Toni Darville, MD, Vice Chair of Research, Chief of Infectious Diseases, UNC's Department of Pediatrics Darville is an active clinician and educator for medical and scientific trainees at all levels. The ultimate goal of her lab is to develop a vaccine to protect against Chlamydia trachomatis infection-induced sequelae of infertility and blindness, diseases of global societal and … Continued
Ross Boyce, MD, MSc Assistant Professor of Medicine, UNC Infectious Diseases Allison Aiello, PhD Professor of Epidemiology, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health After service with the U.S. Army that included two deployments to Iraq in a variety of leadership positions and earning three Bronze Star Medals, Ross Boyce attended medical school at … Continued
Presented by Emily Ciccone, MD, MHS, a clinical instructor and infectious diseases fellow at UNC, and Allison Aiello, PhD, professor of epidemiology and a Carolina Population Center fellow
Matthew Collins, MD, PhD, is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University's Hope Clinic of Emory Vaccine Center
Sancta St. Cyr, MD, MPH, is the project officer for the Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance Project, the national sentinel surveillance system for antibiotic resistant gonorrhea. She joined the Surveillance and Data Management Branch of the Division of STD Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2017 as a medical officer. In her role, she … Continued
Emily Ciccone and Allison Aiello presenting
Asher Schranz, MD, MPH, assistant professor of infectious diseases at UNC
Presented by Irene Doherty, RhD, MPH, epidemiology research scientist, North Carolina Central University
Clarisse Sri-Pathmanathan and Eneyi Kpokiri from the London School of Hygience and Tropical Medicine
Emily Hadley, Research Triangle Institute
IGHID Director Myron Cohen, MD