Location:
Level 6, Seminar Room Wallace Wurth Building UNSW Australia Sydney NSW 2052
Open to
All
The Kirby Institute is pleased to present:
Associate Professor Andrea Cox
"Challenges in immunologic control of Hepatitis C virus infection."
Tuesday 8th December
Seminar: 1pm - 2pm
Lunch will be served from 12.30pm
Bio:
Andrea Cox is currently an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She earned her Ph.D. studying T cell immunology at The University of Virginia. She subsequently completed an M.D. and Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease training at Johns Hopkins. Clinically, she specialises in the treatment of patients with hepatitis virus infections. Her laboratory investigates human immune responses to chronic viral infections, including mechanisms through which these infections stimulate and evade immune responses, vaccine development, and immunotherapy. Dr. Cox has managed a longitudinal cohort of injection drug users since 2003 to permit detailed molecular analysis of HCV transmission, host immune responses, and virus sequence evolution. She is also a principal investigator on the first prophylactic HCV vaccine trial in at-risk people.