14 Oct 2021

Hot topics in HIV: Vaccines, Immune Recovery and Eradication 2021

HIV
English
Casa Convalescència, Barcelona

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Research on HIV infection progresses rapidly and gives room for hope. At this moment the possibility of eradicating the virus or discovering an effective vaccine are the two main strategic lines in the fight against the disease and our centres are among the most advanced in the world in this research.

The yearly conference on Hot topics in HIV – Vaccines, immune recovery and eradication responds to the need of providing an update on these issues, which have a direct impact on the current treatment strategies: importance of early diagnosis, suitability of the early start of treatment, identification of patients newly infected with higher likelihood of benefiting from curative treatments.

Since 2009 the Fight AIDS Foundation (Fundació Lluita contra la SIDA) in collaboration with IrsiCaixa, organizes this one-day conference where prominent experts present the latest updates on how and when current and new drugs can be used; reactivation of reservoirs; immunotherapies; and genetic and cellular therapies. Debates involving basic researchers, clinicians and advocates are organized around the discussion topics to promote lively interactions and encompass the different viewpoints.

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Coordinators

Bonaventura Clotet

President of the Fight Infections Foundation and Director of the IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute

Fundació Lluita contra les Infeccions, Badalona, Spain. Institut d'Investigació del Sida IrsiCaixa i Institut Català de la Salut, Badalona, Spain.

Bonaventura Clotet

President of the Fight Infections Foundation and Director of the IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute

Dr. Clotet received his MD (1976) and his PhD (1981), with a thesis on autoimmune diseases, from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). That same year, his internship as an Internal Medicine specialist at the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona coincided with the first AIDS case reported in Spain. This case was the catalyst for a career dedicated to this serious disease, first as head of the HIV Unit of the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital in Badalona (1987-2015) and then as founder and president of the Fight against AIDS Foundation (1992), which is now named as Fight Infections Foundation.

Dr. Clotet soon saw the need to go a step beyond patient care to conduct research aimed at eradicating AIDS. In 1995, with the support of “la Caixa” and the Department of Health of the Generalitat of Catalonia, he founded the IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, which he still heads. In addition, Dr. Clotet is also the clinical director of Infectious Diseases at the Metropolitana Nord area of the Catalan Institute of Health, scientific advisor to two IrsiCaixa spin-offs: Aelix Therapeutics SL and AlbaJuna Therapeutics SL and director of the Chair of AIDS and Related Diseases at the Universitat de Vic (UVic).

He has published more than 1000 papers in high impact international journals and his contributions to research have been recognized with the Josep Trueta medal to Sanitary Merit and the ‘Premi Nacional de Recerca’, among other awards.
Javier Martínez – Picado

Researcher and professor

ICREA, Irsicaixa AIDS Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain

Javier Martínez – Picado

Researcher and professor

ICREA Research Professor and Principal Investigator at Retrovirology and Clinical Studies research group, Irsicaixa AIDS Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain.