Dr. Judith Currier kicked off the week with her presentation at the Program Committee Workshop for New Investigators and Trainees titled "Complications of HIV Disease and ART."
Watch the webcast of her presentation here ». (begins at 1:11:14)
UCLA CARE Center faculty and fellows were well-represented with a number of abstracts presented highlighting our cutting-edge research on gene therapy, cardiovascular disease, metabolic complications, hepatitis C co-infection, and inflammation.
Ultrasonographic Measures of CVD Risk in a Modern Cohort of ART-naïve HIV+ Individuals: Baseline Results from ACTG Study 5260s
James Stein, T Brown, H Ribaudo, Y Chen, M Yan, E Lauer-Brodell, G McComsey, M Dube, H Hodis, and J Currier
The Association between Body Composition, Soluble and Cellular Immune Activation Biomarkers, and BMD in ART-naïve HIV-1+ Persons: Baseline Results of ACTG Study A5260s Todd Brown, J Currier, Y Chen, H Ribaudo, J Touw, J Rothenberg, M Dube, R Murphy, J Stein, and G McComsey
Biomarkers of Microbial Translocation and Macrophage Activation Are Associated with Progression of Atherosclerosis in HIV Infection: ACTG NWCS 332/A5078 Study
Theodoros Kelesidis, O Yang, M Kendall, H Hodis, and J Currier
Progression of Atherosclerosis-Understanding RAGE: NWCS 332 Ann Danoff, M Kendall, J Currier, T Kelesidis, AM Schmidt, and J Aberg
Plasma Viremia and Cellular HIV-1 DNA Persist Despite Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for AIDS-related Lymphoma Anthony Cillo, A Krishnan, R Mitsuyasu, D McMahon, S Li, J Rossi, J Zaia, and J Mellors
Induction of Acquired CCR5 Deficiency with Zinc Finger Nuclease-modified Autologous CD4 T Cells (SB-728-T) Correlates with Increases in CD4 Count and Effects on Viral Load in HIV-infected Subjects
C June, Pablo Tebas, D Stein, R Mitsuyasu, J Lalezari, S Wang, G Lee5, B Levine, W Tang, and D Ando
A Single Infusion of Zinc Finger Nuclease CCR5 Modified Autologous CD4 T Cells (SB-728-T) Increases CD4 Counts and Leads to Decrease in HIV Proviral Load in an Aviremic HIV-infected Subject Jay Lalezari, R Mitsuyasu, S Wang, G Lee, M Giedlin, W Tang, K Spratt, R Surosky, N Dubois-Stringfellow, and D Ando
Impact of Chemotherapy for AIDS-related Lymphoma on Residual Viremia and Cellular HIV-1 DNA in Patients on Suppressive ART
Anthony Cillo, S Krishnan, D McMahon, R Mitsuyasu, M Para, and J Mellors
Pre-HAART Initiation Soluble CD14 Levels Vary by Country, Race, and Sex
Ashwin Balagopal, V Franco, L Smeaton, T Campbell, N Kumarasamy, J Hakim, R Mitsuyasu, R Bollinger, D Thomas, A Gupta, and ACTG PEARLS and NWCS 319 Study Team
Effects of Telmisartan on Markers of Monocyte Activation in HIV+ Patients on ART Jordan Lake J Currier, C-H Tseng, D Douek, and N Sandler
Associations between 25-Hydroxyvitamin D, Adipokines, and Measures of Insulin Glucose Homeostasis in HIV+ Patients
Jordan Lake, C-H Tseng, R Hoffman, and J Currier
Inflammatory and Coagulation Biomarker Trajectories from Late Pregnancy to 6 Weeks Postpartum in HIV+ Women Who Continue vs Discontinue ART after Delivery Risa Hoffman, E Leister, D Kacanek, D Shapiro, J Read, Y Bryson, and J Currier
Changes in Inflammatory Marker Concentrations during Randomized Feeding in Women Infected with HIV-1 Subtype C Elizabeth Russell, T Mohammed, B Jorowe, L Smeaton, R Hoffman, J Currier, S Moyo, M Essex, and S Lockman
Combination of Allele-specific Detection Techniques to Quantify Minority Resistance Variants in HBV, a Novel Approach Debika Bhattacharya, M Lewis, B Lassmann, T Phan, G Knecht, M Bickel, and O Yang
Measuring Fitness Cost of HCV Drug-resistance Mutations in a Fully Replication-competent Assay
B Lassmann, V Arumugaswami, K Chew, and Martha Lewis