(Find agenda below.) Please plan to join us as we highlight the impressive and impactful work of our trainees in the U.S. and around the globe! Presented by the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases and the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, this symposium will feature global health research from MD/PhD … Read more
The UNC Center for AIDS Research is thrilled to announce our 27th Annual World AIDS Day Symposium, taking place on Friday, December 5th, 2025, from 9:15 AM to 12:00 PM. This inspiring event brings together researchers, clinicians, community members, and advocates dedicated to advancing the fight against HIV/AIDS. We are honored to welcome Dr. Geri Donenberg, NIH … Read more
Vera P. Luther, MD, MS is an infectious diseases physician and professor of medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC. She is an educator, antimicrobial steward, and informatician. She is passionate about teaching the next generation of healthcare professionals and enjoys all aspects of health professions education. In addition to serving … Read more
Seth Berkowitz, MD, MPH, is the Vice Chief for Research. Dr. Berkowitz is a general internist and primary care doctor. He studies the relationship between health-related social needs, such as food insecurity, and health outcomes. His current work emphasizes interventions that address these needs as part of clinical care, and the health effects of policies … Read more
Sara Gianella Weibel, MD, is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health at UC San Diego. She is the director of the Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Translational Virology Core and director of the AIDS Clinical Trial Group (ACTG) Virology Specialty Laboratory, where she serves as part of … Read more
Tessa Andermann, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, studies infectious diseases of immunocompromised patients. Dr. Andermann’s research focuses on how intestinal microbiome-host interactions impact infectious complications and other outcomes in patients with hematologic malignancies. Her goal is to develop microbiome-targeted therapies for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases in these and other immunocompromised patient … Read more
The T32 Pathogenesis Training Program trains the next generation of researchers in microbiology, preparing them to address critical needs in infectious diseases. The following will present their work: Farhang Aghakhanian, PhD, MSc; Nathaniel Chapman, PhD; Thomas Holowka, MD, PhD; and Zachary Popkin-Hall, PhD.
The T32 STI/HIV Training Program trains fellows to conduct STI/HIV research, fostering skills in interdisciplinary research. The following will present their work: Teresa (Tess) Filipowicz, MPH; Alexander Commanday, MD; and Lauren Graybill, PhD, MS (virtually)
Emily Pfaff, PhD, MS, Associate Professor in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, specializes in clinical informatics. She is co-director of Informatics and Data Science with the TraCS Institute. This is a hybrid event, held in Bioinformatics 2127 and Zoom.
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Melinda Pettigrew, PhD, is Dean of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the epidemiology of respiratory tract infections, the microbiome, and the One Health threat of antibiotic resistance. The bacterial pathogens that she studies asymptomatically colonize mucosal surfaces, such as the tissues that line the inside of the nose, and … Read more
Join the UNC CFAR SBIS Core for a discussion with UNC School of Medicine and School of Public Health faculty addressing how they made the transition from global to local or vice versa and how they have managed the process both professionally and personally. First with our main speaker, Dr. Sarah Rutstein, and later with … Read more
Amy Mathers, MD, is Associate Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Associate Director of Clinical Microbiology, and Medical Director Antimicrobial Stewardship at UVA School of Medicine. Dr. Mather's research focuses on the use of whole genome sequencing to explore the molecular epidemiology of mobile genetic elements associated with genes of drug resistance, clinical microbiology detection of … Read more
The CFAR HIV Clinical Cohort will present an AI & Data Science Workshop about using ChaptGPT as a research assistant. This will be led by Peter Leese, director of the TraCS Data Science Lab and data scientist Josh Fuchs. Hybrid event, held in Bioinformatics 5127 and by Zoom.
Dr. Sarah Joseph is a virologist and evolutionary biologist with extensive experience examining HIV-1 evolution in the CNS and the establishment of long-lived HIV-1 reservoirs. She received a Ph.D. in evolutionary genetics from the University of Texas at Austin. She is now an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina where she has faculty … Read more
This CFAR webinar will feature the REPRIEVE Study. Register here.
Susan Cu-Uvin, MD, is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medicine at the Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University. She is also a Professor at the Brown School of Public Health, and Director of the Providence/Boston Center for AIDS Research. Her area of expertise is women with HIV, and she has been funded by the … Read more
An overview of this year's symposium has been posted here: Join us in Bioinformatics 1131 for this annual event featuring research from MD/PhD students, doctoral candidates, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty from global sites around the world, hosted by the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases and Gillings School of Global Public Health. See … Read more
Lance Thurlow, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of North Carolina Adams School of Dentistry in Chapel Hill. He received his PhD from Kansas State University in the lab of Lynn Hancock where he studied vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecalis biofilm formation and immune evasion.