Knowledge Exchange

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.

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

With the endorsement of HKU-LKS Faculty of Medicine and the Advisory Council on AIDS of Hong Kong Government, AIDS Institute successfully hosted the Hong Kong Symposium on HIV/AIDS 2012 in collaboration with Hong Kong AIDS Foundation. Professor SP Lee, Dr. CH Leong and Dr. Susan Fan made opening remarks. Over 200 participants attended the symposium including scientists, physicians, nurses, students, government officers and AIDS activists of various non-government organizations of Hong Kong and mainland China. The honorary director of AIDS Institute, Dr. David Ho gave the keynote speech entitled “Passive Immunization for HIV Prevention”.  Other guest speakers including Drs. Robert Schooley, George Shaw, Linqi Zhang, KH Wong, Patrick Li, Xiaoping Chen, shared their latest discoveries on HIV prevention and treatment. This symposium is an in time response to the latest record high of HIV infections in Hong Kong

Keynote speech "AIDS Epidemic and Prospects for Control"
by Dr David D Ho, Scientific Director and Chief Executive Officer, The Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center,

The Rockefeller University

Lecture "HIV/AIDS: China Takes Action and Meets the Challenges"
by Dr Zunyou Wu, Director, National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Lecture “Basic and Clinical Research on HIV/AIDS in China – National 973 Programme”
by Dr Linqi Zhang, Director, AIDS Research Center, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College

Lecture “Challenges and Opportunities for AIDS Vaccine Research after Failure in Phase II Trial of Merck’s AIDS Vaccine”
by Dr Ling Chen, Director General, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Lecture “First Glimpse of the Peptide Presentation by Rhesus Macaque MHC Class I: Crystal Structure of Manu-A*01 Complexed with Two Immunogenic SIV Epitopes and Insights into CTL Escape”
by Dr George F Gao, Director, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences