Plenary Lectures

John Coffin (Tufts University and NCI, USA) - Gertrude Elion Distinguished Lecturer Award: Persistence, Resistance, Diversity: Insights into the HIV-host Interaction

Dale Kempf (Abbott Laboratories, USA) - David Barry DART Achievement Award: Pharmacokinetic Boosting: A Paradigm Shift in Antiviral Therapy

Ashley Haase (University of Minnesota, USA) -
Mechanisms of Viral Pathogenesis

Douglas Richman (University of California, San Diego/VA Medical Center, USA) - Tackling HIV Latency

William Mason (Fox Chase Cancer Center, USA) – Chronic Liver Disease and Therapy of Hepatitis B Virus Infection in HIV Infected Persons

Julio Montaner (BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Canada) - Treatment as Prevention: Five Year Experience in British Columbia, Canada

David Cooper (UNSW National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical Research, Australia) - Lipodystrophy and Metabolic Toxicity of Antiretroviral Therapy

Ila Singh (University of Utah, USA) - Emerging Retroviruses: XMRV: The Link to Prostate Cancer and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

HIV Reservoirs, Persistence and Eradication
Kathleen Collins (University of Michigan, USA)
Sharon Lewin (Alfred Hospital, Australia)

Immunotherapies
Daniel Kaufmann (Harvard University, USA)
Franck Lemiale (VIRxSYS, USA)

Viral Hepatitis Co-infection and other HIV Co-morbidities
Ronald Mitsuyasu (UCLA Care Center, USA)
Marion Peters (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
Jürgen Rockstroh (University of Bonn, Germany)

Antiretroviral Targets
Christopher Aiken (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Eddy Arnold (Rutgers University, USA)
Monique Nijhuis (University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands)

Inflammation, Pharmacology, Toxicology & Drug Metabolism
David Shepp (Hofstra University School of Medicine, USA)
Laurence Sperling (Emory University School of Medicine, USA)

Preventing Transmission: Microbicides and Other Approaches
John Moore (Weill Cornell Medical College, USA)
James F. Rooney (Gilead Sciences, USA)
Davey Smith (University of California, San Diego, USA)

Novel Monitoring and Diagnostic Approaches
Steven Deeks (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
Dan Kuritzkes (Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA)

Treatment Strategies in Developing Countries
Joep Lange (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Annelies Van Rie (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA)
Mark Wainberg (McGill AIDS Center, Canada)

Poster Discussions
Brendan Larder (RDI, UK)
Richard Pollard (University of California, Davis Medical Center, USA