Hudson Seminar - Thursday 26 May, “Tackling HIV persistence: tickle, shock or kill”.

Professor  Lewin

Thursday 26 May, 12-1 pm, Lecture Theatre 1, Monash Medical Centre. 

The speaker will be: Prof Sharon Lewin, FRACP, PhD,FAAHMS , Director-Dohert Institute for Infection and Immunity - University of Melbourne

Light refreshments to follow presentation outside the Lecture Theatre.

Sharon Lewin is an infectious diseases physician and basic scientist and is the inaugural director of the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity; Professor of Medicine at the University of Melbourne; and consultant infectious diseases physician, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. The Doherty Institute is a joint venture of the University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital and has over 700 staff working entirely on infection and immunity.

Her research focuses on the basic biology and clinical trials related to HIV latency and cure, immune reconstitution and HIV-HBV pathogenesis. She has given over 100 major international invited talks on HIV cure and is regarded as a global leader in HIV cure research. Her laboratory is currently funded by the NHMRC, the National Institutes for Health, The Welcome Trust, the American Foundation for AIDS Research and multiple commercial partnerships.

She was the local co-chair for the International AIDS Conference held in Melbourne in July 2014 which attracted over 14,000 participants and was the largest health conference ever held in Australia. Later that year, she was named Melburnian of the Year. In 2015, she was awarded the Peter Wills Medal by Research Australia and was the first woman to receive this award.

She is chair of the Ministerial Advisory Committee for Blood Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmitted Infections, the peak advisory committee to the Minister of Health of Australia. She is a member of the NHMRC Council and chairs the NHMRC Health Translation Advisory Committee and in 2014.