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Seminar: Engineered Antibody Domains as Candidate Therapeutics and Diagnostics

Time: 3p.m., Date: Monday, September 17, 2012
Venue: Seminar Room 5, LG-1, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Dr. Dimiter Dimitrov,

Head, Protein Interaction Group, Senior Investigator of the CCR Nanobiology Program, Center for Cancer Research, USA.

Seminar: The Effort on Discovery and Optimization of New Chemical Agents that Inhibit Non-replicating and Replicating Mtb

Time: 3p.m., Date: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Dr. Gang LIU,

Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Chair of Department, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University.

Seminar: Exploring Connectivity in HIV Epidemiology Studies

Time: 11a.m., Date: Monday, February 20, 2012
Venue: Conference Room 004, G/F, University Pathology Building, Queen Mary Hosptial
Speaker: Dr. Shui Shan LEE,

Professor of Infectious Diseases, Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases (CEID) and Department of Microbiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Seminar: Behavioral and Molecular Evidence for a Feedback Interaction between Addictive Substances and HIV Viral Proteins

Time: 11a.m., Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Dr. Sulie L. CHANG,

Director, Institute of NeuroImmune Pharmacology; Professor, Biological Sciences/Neuroscience, Seton Hall University, NJ, U.S.A.

 

Seminar: Antibody Profiling, Epitope Mapping and Vaccine Design Based on Yeast Surface Display System

Time: 3 p.m., Date: Thursday, December 15, 2011
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Professor Linqi ZHANG,

Director/Professor, Institute of Human Virology, Comprehensive AIDS Research Center, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University; Director/Professor, AIDS Research Center, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College

All are welcome | Free admission

Seminar: Optimizing Antiretroviral Therapy in HIV-infected Patients

Time: 4 p.m., Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Venue: Seminar Room 1, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Dr. Man-po LEE,

Associate Consultant, Department of Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital

All are welcome | Free admission

Seminar: Advances in HIV-1 Vaccine Development

Time: 4 p.m., Date: Monday, October 24, 2011
Venue: Seminar Room 1, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Sandhya Vasan, M.D.,

Clinical Trial Physician, United States Military HIV Research Program, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

All are welcome | Free admission

Seminar: A Novel Fusion Gene TRIMCyp in Pig-tailed Macaque determines its Susceptibility to HIV-1 Infection

Time: 4:30 p.m., Date: Monday, August 15, 2011
Venue: Seminar Room 7, LG-1, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Dr. Yong-Tang ZHENG,

Professor, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Seminar: From Alzheimer's Disease Research to Understand other Neurodegeneration leading to Dementia: The Common Modes of Neurodegeneration

Time: 4:00 p.m., Date: Friday, June 24, 2011
Venue: Seminar Room 4, Ground Floor, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Dr. Raymond Chuen-Chung CHANG,

Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, HKU; Secretary, Alzheimer's Disease Research Network, HKU

Seminar: System Biology to Decipher Protective Immune Feature during HIV Infection

Time: 3:00 p.m., Date: Friday, May 27, 2011
Venue: Seminar Room 4, Ground Floor, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Dr. Jianqing XU, M.D., Ph.D.,,

Professor, Fudan University, China

Seminar: Special Features of 2009-pandemic HA and NA

Time: 4:00 p.m., Date: Friday, April 29, 2011
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Professor George Fu GAO,

Vice President, Beijing Institutes of Life Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) & Director and Professor, CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

 

Seminar: Challenges of HIV/AIDS at the Bench, in the Clinic, and from the Field (Joint Seminar Organized by the ITC, CUHK, and HKU)

Time: 5:30 p.m., Date: Thursday, April 28, 2011
Venue: Shaw Auditorium, Postgraduate Education Centre, Prince of Wales Hospital
Speaker: Dr. David Ho,

Director of Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, NY & Irene Diamond Professor at the Rockefeller University, NY. Time Magazine "Man of the Year" 1996.

Seminar: How Vaccine Adjuvants can be used to Build Protective Immune Responses

Time: 2:00 p.m., Date: Monday, January 17, 2011
Venue: Seminar Room 7, LG-1, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Professor Nikolai Petrovsky,

Director of Endocrinology and Professor of Flinders University, Australia

 

Seminar: Immunization against AIDS Viruses in Primates: Correlates of Protection

Time: 2:00 p.m., Date: Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Venue: Seminar Room 7, LG-1, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Ruth M. Ruprecht, M.D., Ph.D.,

Ruth M. Ruprecht, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA

Seminar Jointly Presented by the AIDS Institute and the Research Centre of Infection and Immunology: "NeuroAIDS: A Tango of HIV and the Host"

Time: 5:00 p.m., Date: Friday, November 19, 2010
Venue: Conference Room 004, G/F, University Pathology Building, Queen Mary Hospital
Speaker: Dr. Shilpa J. Buch,

Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA

All are welcome | Free admission

Seminar: Cross-reactive HIV-1-Neutralizing Human Monoclonal Antibodies - Candidate Therapeutics and Implications for Design of Vaccine Immunogens

Time: 11:00 a.m., Date: Monday, November 8, 2010
Venue: Seminar Room 3, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Dr. Dimiter Dimitrov,

Head, Protein Interaction Group, Senior Investigator of the CCR Nanobiology Program, Center for Cancer Research, USA

 

Seminar: Develop Engineered Human Monoclonal Antibodies against HIV-1 and Influenza Viruses

Time: 4:15 p.m., Date: Monday, September 6, 2010
Venue: Seminar Room 3, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Dr. Paul Zhou,

Professor and Unit Chief of Anti-Viral Immunity and Genetic Therapy Unit, Institute Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

All are welcome | Free admission

Seminar: HIV Interactions with Dendritic Cells

Time: 2:00 p.m., Date: Monday, August 9, 2010
Venue: Seminar Room 3, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Dr. Li Wu,

Associate Professor, Center for Retrovirus Research, The Ohio State University, USA

Seminar: Immunopathogenesis of HIV-HBV Co-infection

Time: 2:00 p.m., Date: Thursday, April 1, 2010
Venue: Seminar Room 1, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Professor Sharon Lewin,

Professor and Director of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Hospital and Monash University, Australia

All are welcome | Free admission

Seminar: Inhalation Drug Delivery for Lung Diseases and Vaccination

Time: 10:00 a.m., Date: Thursday, December 17, 2009
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Prof Hak-Kim Chan (CV and List of Publications),

Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sydney, Australia

All are welcome | Free admission

World AIDS Day Lecture: Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise.

Time: 12:30 - 2:00 p.m., Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Venue: Global Lounge, G/F, Swire Building, HKU Main Campus, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Speaker: Dr Zhiwei Chen,

Director, HKU - AIDS Institute

All are welcome | Free admission

Seminar: Overview of HIV Strategy at GSK

Time: 3:00 p.m., Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Venue: Seminar Room 7, LG1/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Dr Jinzi Wu

Vice President and Head, HIV Drug Performance Unit, Infectious Diseases Center of Excellence for Drug Discovery, GlaxoSmithKline, RTP, NC, USA

All are welcome | Free admission

Research Seminar: Antibody-dependent enhancement of lung damage in Chinese macaque infected with pathogenic SARS-CoV

Date: Friday, November 6, 2009
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 6, LG1/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Haibo Wang, PhD, HKU-AIDS Institute

All are welcome | Free admission

Seminar: Alcohol and Cannabinoids: Implications for HIV-infected Patients

Time: 10:00 a.m., Date: Friday, October 9, 2009
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Patricia Molina

MD, PhD, Professor & Head, Department of Physiology, Louisiana State Universith Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, USA

Abstract

All are welcome | Free admission

Co-organised by the AIDS Institute & the Research Center of Infection and Immunology

Research Seminar: Early Events of SARS-CoV Infection in Chinese Macaques

Date: Friday, September 18, 2009
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Dr Li Liu

Research Assistant Professor, HKU-AIDS Institute

All are welcome | Free admission

Research Seminar: Identification & Characterization of a Native Isoform of Human PD-1

Date: Friday, September 4, 2009
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Dr Henggui Liu

Post-doctoral Fellow, HKU-AIDS Institute

All are welcome | Free admission

Seminar: Treatment of Simian AIDS with Traditional Chinese Medicine

Time: 4:00 p.m., Date: Monday, June 29, 2009

Venue: Seminar Room 7, LG1/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speakers: Professor Lu Yaozeng & Professor Wu Xiaoxian,

Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences

Seminar: Clinical AIDS@24 in Hong Kong

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon, Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Dr Ka Hing Wong,

Consultant Physician, Special Preventive Programme, Centre for Health Protection, Department of Health, Hong Kong

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Seminar: HIV/AIDS & International Research Opportunities at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH

Time: 2:00 p.m., Date: Friday, April 17, 2009
Venue: Seminar Room 6, LG1/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speakers: Dr David Shurtleff,

Director, Division of Basic Neuroscience and Behavioral Research, NIDA, NIH
Speakers: Dr Diane Lawrence,

Associate Director, AIDS Research Program, NIDA, NIH

Seminar: The Origins of Epidemic AIDS Viruses

Time: 2:00 p.m., Date: Thursday, January 15, 2009
Venue: Seminar Room 7, LG1/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Professor Preston Marx,

Professor and Chair of Division of Microbiology, Interim Director of Center for Infectious Disease, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University, USA (download Prof Marx's full CV)

Seminar: Non-human primate models for HIV/AIDS Research?

Time: 2:00 p.m., Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Venue: Seminar Room 3, G/F, Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Professor Preston Marx,

Professor and Chair of Division of Microbiology, Interim Director of Center for Infectious Disease, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University, USA (download Prof Marx's full CV)

Public Lecture: Threats Posed by the AIDS Pandemic

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008
Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road
Speaker: Dr David D Ho,

Scientific Director and Chief Executive Officer, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, Rockefeller University, USA

Dean of Medicine Professor SP Lee (right) presents a souvenir to Dr David Ho in appreciation of his inspiring lecture

Seminar: Identification and Characterization of Cross-Reactive HIV-1-Neutralizing Human Monoclonal Antibodies

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m., Date: Friday, October 31, 2008
Venue: Seminar Room 3, G/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Dr Mei-Yun Zhang,

Scientist, Protein Interactions, Center for Cancer Research Nanobiology Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA

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Seminar: HIV-1 gp41 Fusion Intermediate: A Target for HIV Therapeutics & Vaccines

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m., Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Venue: Seminar Room 3, G/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Dr Shibo Jiang,

Head, Laboratory of Viral Immunology, The Lindsley F Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, USA

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Seminar: How can we develop an effective microbicide?

Time: 5:30 - 6:30 p.m., Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Dr Allen Zhiwei Wu

Professor & Director, Center for Public Health Research, Nanjing University, China

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Seminar: Mechanistic Basis for HIV-1 Coreceptor Switch

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m., Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
Venue: Seminar Room 7, LG1/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Professor Cecilia Cheng-Mayer,

Aaron Diamond Professor and Staff Investigator, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, USA

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Seminar: Impact of HIV on T Cell Repertoire

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m., Date: Monday, July 21, 2008
Venue: Seminar Room 5, LG1/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Dr Paul Baum,

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine, University of California San Francisco, USA

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Seminar: Advance in DNA and siRNA Delivery in vitro & in vivo

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m., Date: Thursday, May 15, 2008
Venue: Seminar Room 3, G/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Dr Alain Cuzange

R&D and Business Manager, Polyplus-transfection Company, France

Polyplus-transfection Company is a French life science company dedicated to the development and marketing of transfection reagents. Its technology focuses on linear jetPEI, which is non-toxic and highly efficient, and can be used in protein, antibody as well as gene, siRNA delivery. In vivo jetPEI is widely used in clinical trials for gene therapy.

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Seminar: Facilitated Antigen Presentation in Electroporation-mediated DNA Vaccination

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m., Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Prof Yuhong Xu,

Associate Dean, School of Pharmacy, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

About the speaker: Professor Yuhong Xu obtained her BS in Electrical Engineering from Peking University in 1990, and PhD in Biophysical Sciences from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1996. She had been a postgraduate researcher at the School of Pharmacy in University of California San Francisco, a post-doctoral researcher at Chrion Corporation (now part of Novartis AG), and a senior scientist at Merck Research Laboratories, before returning to China in 2000. She joined Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU) and was appointed as the Assistant Dean and then the Associate Dean of its newly founded School of Pharmacy. Currently she is Head of the Molecular Pharmaceutics Lab in the School of Pharmacy and the Director of Molecular Imaging in SJTU Med-X Research Institute.

Seminar: HIV and the Brain

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m., Date: Friday, April 25, 2008
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Dr Ian Everall,

Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, USA

 

Seminar: The Natural History of Dendritic Cells in Peripheral Lymphoid Organs of Mice

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m., Date: Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Venue: Seminar Room 3, G/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Dr Kang Liu,

Research Associate, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, The Rockefeller University, USA About the speaker: Dr Kang Liu obtained her PhD from the Rockefeller University with Dr Ralph Steinman in 2004. She then joined the University's Laboratory of Molecular Immunology as a post-doctoral associate and became a research associate in 2007 working with Dr Michel Nussenzweig in the field of dendritic cells' interaction with T cells and natural history of dendritic cells respectively. Dr Liu has published many papers in renowned journals including the Nature Immunology. Click here to view Dr Liu's CV. Abstract

Workshop: HIV/AIDS after 25 Years of Research

Date: Friday, February 22, 2008
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 6, LG1/F, Laboratory Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Dr Zhiwei Chen, Director, HKU-AIDS Institute

 

 

 

 

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