Sponsored by the
Foundation for Retrovirology and Human Health
In scientific collaboration with the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The 12th Conference on Retroviruses and
Opportunistic Infections is a scientifically focused meeting of the world's
leading researchers working to understand, prevent, and treat HIV/AIDS and its
complications.
The mission of the CROI is to provide a forum for basic
scientists, clinical investigators, and global health researchers to present,
discuss, and critique their investigations into the epidemiology and biology of
human retroviruses and the diseases they produce with the ultimate goal of
translating laboratory and clinical research into progress against the AIDS
epidemic.
The subjects that will be highlighted
are: immunology, vaccines, molecular
epidemiology and the distribution and diversity of retroviruses, virology,
primary/acute infection, pathogenesis (disease mechanisms in humans and
animal models), neuropathogenesis and
neurologic complications, antiretroviral therapy (preclinical,
clinical, complications, immune-based therapies, and treatment strategies), clinical
pharmacology, HIV drug resistance, opportunistic infections and co-pathogens, hepatitis
virus co-infections, epidemiology of HIV
infection, HIV prevention science (including
microbicides and operational and public
health research), pediatric,
adolescent, and maternal-fetal studies, HIV infection in women/women’s
health, diagnostics and monitoring, and research
on clinical care and scale-up in developing countries.
The meeting will feature the Tenth Annual Bernard Fields Memorial Lecture, a
special Keynote Lecture, 6 plenary lectures that will be highly scientific in
nature, 7 roundtable symposia that
will present and debate controversial scientific issues, several hundred
original oral abstract and poster presentations of new data, and late breakers
that will consist of important preliminary research findings. Based
upon their popularity at CROI 2004, the poster discussion groups and the Program
Committee workshop for new investigators and trainees
will be expanded.
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updated as of September 20, 2004
