Meet the jury: Persistent SARS-CoV-2 infections in advanced HIV disease: a clinical and public health challenge by prof Richard Lessells
We kindly invite you to the Meet the jury lecture on Persistent SARS-CoV-2 infections in advanced HIV disease: a clinical and public health challenge by prof Richard Lessells.
Short abstract
Prof. Lessells Rich will present case studies of persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection in people living with advanced HIV disease, and discuss this as the most plausible mechanism for the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern.
About Prof. Richard Lessels
Dr Richard Lessells BSc(MedSci), MBChB, MRCP(UK), DTM&H, DipHIVMed, PhD is an Infectious Diseases clinician scientist at the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and Honorary Research Associate at the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA). He did his clinical training in Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine in the UK, and did his PhD on TB diagnostic strategies at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine under the supervision of Professor Peter Godfrey-Faussett. He has broad clinical and research interests around HIV, TB, COVID-19, and emerging/re-emerging infectious diseases. He played an important role in the response to COVID-19 in South Africa, as a member of the Network for Genomic Surveillance South Africa (NGS-SA), as coordinator of the clinical, epidemiology and modelling subgroup of the national SARS-CoV-2 variants consortium, and as a member of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19 vaccines.
Contact info
George Bwire (Georgemsema<dot>bwire<at>kuleuven<dot>be)
Anne-Mieke Vandamme (annemie<dot>vandamme<at>kuleuven<dot>be
PRACTICAL INFO
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DATE24 September, 2024
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LOCATION
Rega Institute
Herestraat 49
3000 Leuven
Auditorium Erik De Clercq (room 06.B204) Meet the jury Prof. Richard Lessells -
TARGET GROUPPhD postdoc ZAP
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LANGUAGE EVENTENGLISH
ONZE UNIVERSITEITEN
