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Original Release Date: 11/16/2010
Review Date: 11/16/2010
Presenter
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Bruce Walker, MD
Director, Professor of Medicine
Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard Medical School
Learning Objectives / Desired Outcomes
At the completion of this educational activity, participants will:
- Better appreciate the use of genome-wide association scans to understand human disease.
- Describe the genetic basis for control and lack of control of HIV.
- Discuss the implications of genetic studies for vaccine design.
- Understand the effects of immune selection pressure on viral fitness.
Presenter Bio
Bruce Walker is the Director of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and
Harvard, a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a Professor of
Practice at MIT and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. In
addition to his clinical duties as a board certified Infectious Disease
specialist, his research focuses on cellular immune responses in chronic
viral infections, with a particular focus on HIV. He leads an international
translational clinical and basic science research effort to understand how
some rare people who are infected with HIV, but have never been treated,
can fight the virus with their immune system. Dr. Walker is also an Adjunct
Professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine in Durban, South
Africa. There he collaborates with the Doris Duke Medical Research
Institute at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and serves as a Principal
Investigator in the HIV Pathogenesis Program, an initiative to study the
evolution of the HIV and the immune responses effective in controlling this
virus, as well as to contribute to training African scientists.
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