9:00 – 9:25
Opening ceremony
• Sr. Xavier Pomés
- Conseller de Sanitat
• Sr. Vilarasau - President de la Fundació "La
Caixa"
• Sra. Maite Arqué – Alcaldesa de Badalona
• Dr. B. Clotet
9:25 – 11:00
1st. Session – Chairman: Ch. Boucher
and B. Clotet
• B. Autran – "Therapeutic
immunisation against HIV"
• G. Pantaleo – "Update on Immune-based interventions
to achieve long-term control of HIV".
• J. Schapiro - "Guidelines for the use of resistance
testing"
• D. Kuritzkes - "Resistance to Fuzeon (T-20)
• Discussion
11:00 – 11:30 –
Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:30
2nd. Session - Chairman: L. Menéndez-Arias
and JM Gatell
• J.A. Esté –
"Virus fusion and pathogenesis of HIV"
• M. Angel Martinez de la Sierra – "RNA interference
of HIV replication".
• M. Bofill – "Immune reconstitution of CD4
subsets"
• L. Ruiz – "Treatment Interruption guided
by CD4 and VL"
• M. Stevenson – "Mecanisms in HIV pathogenesis
and persistence"
• Discussion
13:30 – 15:30 –
Lunch
15:30 – 17:30
3rd. Session – Chairman: Dr. Kuritzkes
and Dr. Schapiro
• L. Menendez-Arias –
" Molecular mechanisms involved in the acquisition of multidrug-resistance
in HIV-1 reverse transcriptase".
• Telenti – "Silencing of host genes involved
in the cellular cycle of HIV"
• J. van Lunzen – "Virus evolution in lymph
nodes"
• Ch Boucher –"Complete and continuous viral
inhibition, where do we stand?"
• F. Lori – "Therapeutic vaccination with DermaVir"
• Discussion
17:30 – 17:40
Closing address
• B. Clotet
The Fundació irsiCaixa is
located at the Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Ctra
del Canyet s/n, 08916 BADALONA, Spain.
You can reach
the Hospital by the following means:
By Car:
From the Airport take the B-20 [towards Mataro], then take exit
21, thereafter the signage for the hospital is very clear. From
Barcelona take B20 (exit 4) or C-31 (exit Badalona nord)
By Bus: (B24 and B19 from Barcelona (Urquinaona Square
and Vall d’Hebron Avenue, repectively), B26 from Sant Adrià
del Besòs I Badalona, B27 from Santa Coloma de Gramenet)
