Highlights from the 24th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections: 13-16 February 2017, Seattle, Washington, USA

Trevor A Crowell; Hermione Lyall; Eva Malatinkova; Sanjay Bhagani; Denise Hsu; Donn J Colby; Christina Polyak; Christina Psomas; Andrew Hill; Esther N Gathogo; Wim Trypsteen; Linos Vandekerckhove; Sabine Kinloch

Highlights from the 24^th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections: 13-16 February 2017, Seattle, Washington, USA

J Virus Erad. 2017 Apr 1;3(2):101-108.

Authors

Trevor A Crowell^{1

2}, Hermione Lyall³, Eva Malatinkova⁴, Sanjay Bhagani⁵, Denise Hsu^{2

6}, Donn J Colby⁷, Christina Polyak^{1

2}, Christina Psomas^{8

9}, Andrew Hill¹⁰, Esther N Gathogo⁵, Wim Trypsteen⁴, Linos Vandekerckhove⁴, Sabine Kinloch⁵

Affiliations

¹ US Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, USA.
² Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA.
³ Department of Paediatrics, Imperial College Healthcare NHS, London, UK.
⁴ HIV Cure Research Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Ghent University, Belgium.
⁵ Royal Free London NHS Trust and University College London, UK.
⁶ Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand.
⁷ SEARCH-Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand and Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre, Bangkok, Thailand.
⁸ Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital of Montpellier, France.
⁹ Institute of Human Genetics, Université de Montpellier, France.
¹⁰ Department of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, UK.

PMID: 28435696
PMCID: PMC5384268

Abstract

From the 13th to 16th February 2017, researchers from around the world convened for the 24th annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington. The conference was organised by the International Antiviral Society-USA (IAS-USA) in partnership with the CROI Foundation. The conference included over 1000 oral and poster presentations of peer-reviewed original research as well as lectures and symposia featuring insights from leading basic, translational and clinical researchers. Highlighted here are key data presented at the conference.

Keywords: HIV; T cells; eradication; hepatitis C; opportunistic infections; reservoirs.

Publication types

Editorial