IAS 2017 Daily Report – Day 4

LIVE FROM IAS: WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 2017 Christina Psomas, MD, PhD is our “grand reporter” Christina PSOMAS Montpellier University Hospital Montpellier – France In today’s plenary session Tasuku Honjo from Kyoto University, Japan, covered the topic of PD-1 blockade immunotherapy against cancer and infectious diseases (WEPL0101). Blockade of the negative immunoregulator programmed death-1 (PD-1) surface singling…

IAS 2017 Daily Report – Day 3

LIVE FROM IAS: TUESDAY, 25 JULY, 2017 Christina Psomas, MD, PhD is our “grand reporter” Christina PSOMAS Montpellier University Hospital Montpellier – France Today’s plenary session started with basic science regarding antiviral proteins that directly or indirectly inhibit specific steps of viral replication. Paul Bieniasz from Rockefeller University, United States, was the ideal presenter of…

IAS 2017 Daily Report – Day 2

LIVE FROM IAS: MONDAY, JULY 24, 2017 Christina Psomas, MD, PhD is our “grand reporter” Christina PSOMAS Montpellier University Hospital Montpellier – France Early this morning took place the first non-commercial satellite symposium around systemic PrEP (MOSA02) organised by HPTN/FHI 360. Myron Cohen from UNC School of Medicine, United States, did an overview of the…

IAS 2017 Daily Report – Day 1

LIVE FROM IAS: SUNDAY, JULY 23, 2017 Christina Psomas, MD, PhD is our “grand reporter” Christina PSOMAS Montpellier University Hospital Montpellier – France The 9th IAS Conference on HIV Science has begun today in the beautiful French capital city of Paris under the chair of Linda-Gail Bekker (South Africa) and Jean-François Delfraissy (France). More than 6,000…

CROI 2017 Daily Report – Day 3

LIVE FROM CROI: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2017 Christina Psomas, MD, PhD is our “grand reporter” Christina PSOMAS Montpellier University Hospital Montpellier – France Dr Shannon L. Hader (58), a Public Health leader from CDC, Atlanta, inaugurated the Wednesday Plenary Session (PL-2) talking about HIV in youth: shifting demographic patterns, complexity to interrupting HIV transmission, complexity…

CROI 2017 Daily Report – Day 2

LIVE FROM CROI: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2017 Christina Psomas, MD, PhD is our “grand reporter” Christina PSOMAS Montpellier University Hospital Montpellier – France Dr Jintanat Ananworanich from Thailand (12) inaugurated the first plenary session of CROI 2017 in the overflowed auditorium of the Washington State Convention Center. From Infants to Adults the phenomena of HIV…

CROI 2017 Daily Report – Day 1

LIVE FROM CROI: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2017 Christina Psomas, MD, PhD is our “grand reporter” Christina PSOMAS Montpellier University Hospital Montpellier – France Back to Seattle again!! The brand new CROI 2017 started in sunny Seattle with the 7th Workshop for New Investigators and Trainees (1). Dr Paul D. Bieniasz from New York described advances in…