Curing HIV – How Close Are We?
Dr. Santiago Perez Patrigeon | February 7, 2024 12-1pm ET
Learning objectives: (1) Understand the concepts of functional cure vs sterilizing cure. (2) Learn how many people have been effectively cured of HIV and how was this achieved. (3) Be familiar with the different cure strategies currently being used to cure HIV. (4) Be aware of the latest findings in HIV cure research.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Dr. Santiago Perez Patrigeon, MD PhD
Dr. Perez is an infectious disease physician with a clinical fellowship in HIV/AIDS and a PhD in HIV immunology from Institut Pasteur in Paris, France. Dr. Perez worked as a clinician-researcher at Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición “Salvador Zubirán” in Mexico City for 10 years before accepting a position at Queen’s University. The main interest is translational research on infectious immune pathogenesis, mainly HIV, as well as clinical trials. Since the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic they have participated in randomized clinical trials investigating new antivirals and monoclonal antibody therapies to treat COVID.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR: Dr. Marc Steben
Family physician; Past-President of IUSTI-Canada; President-elect, International Society for STD Research; and Chair of the 2025 ISSTDR and IUSTI-World Joint Congress. As a family physician, Marc concentrates his clinical interest on sexual health, mainly chronic genital diseases. Research, development and publications in the field include therapeutic approaches to chronic genital pain, prevention and treatment of genital herpes and development of HPV prophylactic vaccine.
