IV International Workshop on HIV Eradication

Location: Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol
Date: 14th November 2003

Agenda:

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)