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Opening Ceremony

Place: International Conference Room, 2F , Tianjin Tianbao International Hotel
Time: 09:00-10:00, Dec. 1, 2006

Mr. Ziren Xiao ( Director of China Medicinal Biotech Association, China) gave a speech.
Dr. Xiaodan Mei ( President of WHTS, Director of BIT Institute of Drug Discovery) hosted the opening ceremony.
Dr. Jason Zhou (Chairman, FusoGen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., China ) gave a speech.
Delivering greeting by Dr. Richard J. Roberts (The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993).
Opening ceremony
More than 800 people participated in the Opening Ceremony

 

Nobel and Keynote Forum


Place: International Conference Room, 2F , Tianjin Tianbao International Hotel
Time: 10:00-11:30, Dec. 1, 2006

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Name & Organization

Chair:

Dr. Gao, G.F., Director - General & Professor, The Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMCAS), China

Title: Women and HIV/AIDS: Risks, Rights, Resouces
Dr. Nafis Sadik
, UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia and Pacific, and former UNFPA Executive Director
Title: Prospects in AIDS Research 2006
Prof. Luc Montagnier, Pioneer in HIV/AIDS Disvoeries, co-founder and president of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention
Title: Roles of the ubiquitin system in health and disease
Dr. Avram Hershko
, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry in 2004
Title: Why do we not have a vaccine against HIV or Tuberculosis yet?
Dr. Rulf M. Zinkernagel, 1996 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
More than 800 people participated in the Nobel and Keynote Forum

Technology Session

Session One: Current Advances in HIV Vaccine Development and Update on HIV Therapeutic Vaccine

Place: VIP Meeting Room, 2F, Tianjin Tianbao International Hotel
Time: 13:30-17:00, Dec. 1, 2006

Chair
Name & Organization
Session Chair
Dr. Opendra Narayan, Chairman of Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics & Immunology,University of Kansas Medical Center
Co-Chair
Dr. Shan Lu, Director, New type Vaccine Research, UMass Med School, USA
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Name & Organization
Title: Superior Interferon and its Anti-HIV Function
Dr. Xinyuan Liu,
Professor, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Title: Creation of HIV-1 Vaccine Candidates Using MolecularBreeding? Directed Molecular Evolution
Dr. X. Sean Du, Department of Infectious Diseases, Maxygen, Inc, USA

Title:Use of Macaque Model to Study Pathogenesis and Vaccine Development Against HIV
Dr. Opendra Narayan, Chairman of Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics & Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center

Title: An important progress on HIV vaccine development
Dr. Shan Lu, Director, New type Vaccine Research, UMass Med School, USA

Title: DEVELOPMENT OF VACCINES AGAINST HIV/AIDS: A CHALLENGE FOR SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Dr. Hans Wolf, Director, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Regensburg, Germany

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Title: A peptide-based vaccine that induces cross-clade reactivity in Macaques
Dr. Francisco Diaz-Mitoma, Professor and Chief, Division of Virology, University of Ottawa

Title:Preclinical evaluation of the safety and efficacy of an HIV-1 envelope peptide-cocktail vaccine in macaque models
Dr. K. Jagannadha Sastry, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
Title: Novel HIV Bacterial Vectored Vaccines
Dr. Jerald Sadoff, CEO, Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation, USA
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Title: The development of Clinical trail on HIV treatment
Dr. Chengxiang Dai
, CMO, Beijing Venturepharm CRO Service Group, China

Session Two: HIV Reverse Transcriptase, Protease, Integrase Inhibitors and Fusion Inhibitors for Therapy

Place: Grand Ball Room, 2F, Tianjin Tianbao International Hotel
Time: 13:30-17:00, Dec. 1, 2006

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Name & Organization
Title: Novel HIV therapeutic strategies targeting viral entry
Dr. K. Jagannadha Sastry, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
Dr. Jason Zhou, Chairman, FusoGen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., China

Title: HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase Dimerization as a Drug Target
Dr. Gilda Tachedjian
, Senior Burnet Fellow, NHMRC RD Wright Fellow, ASMR Director Head, Molecular Interactions Group, Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public , Australia

Title: Design, synthesis and biological activities of quinolinonyl derivatives as inhibitors of HIV-1 integrase
Dr. Roberto Di Santo, Associated Professor in Medicinal Chemistry, Universit¨¤ degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Title: The mode of action of HIV fusion inhibitors at the molecular level
Dr. Miguel A R B Castanho, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Title: Genomic variability of HIV-1 and resistance to antiretroviral drugs
Dr. HJ Fleury, Professor of Virology and head of the Department of Virology and Immunology of the University Hospital of Bordeaux, France
Title: Drug design of anti-HIV
Dr. Wang Cunxin
, Professor, Vice Director, College of life science & Bioengineering Beijing University of Technology
Title: Pharmacology of antiretroviral drugs
Dr. Marta Boffito, Associate Director of PK Research, St. Stephen's Centre, Chelsea and Westminster hospital, UK
Title: Carbohydrate-Binding Agents (CBA) as Novel Entry Inhibitors of HIV, A new therapeutic concept
Dr. Jan balzarini, Professor, Institue for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Title:Substrate Specificity in HIV-1 Protease by a Biased Sequence Search Method
Dr. Turkan Haliloglu, Polymer Research Center and Chemical Engineering Department, Bogazici University, Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey
Title: Dual Inhibitors of HIV-1 Entry and Integration
Dr. Sylvia Lee-Huang, Department of Biochemistry, New York University School of Medicine, USA

Session Three: Optimize & Integrate Investing for Our Future-Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Policy & Regulation Understanding

Place: No. 1 Meeting Room, 2F, Tianjin Tianbao International Hotel
Time: 13:30-17:00, Dec. 1, 2006

Chair
Name & Organization
Session Chair
Dr. Nafis Sadik, UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia and Pacific, and former UNFPA Executive Director
Co-Chair
Dr. Helene Rossert-Blavier, Former Vice-Chair of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (GFATM)
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Name & Organization
Title: Optimize and Integrate Investing for Our Future - Global Fund to Fights AIDS, Policy & Regulation Understanding
Dr. Nafis Sadik
, UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia and Pacific, and former UNFPA Executive Director

Title: Effective and sustainable programs to fight HIV/AIDS pandemic will require a thorough understanding of partnerships between governments and NGOs
Dr. Helene Rossert-Blavier
, Former Vice-Chair of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (GFATM)

Title:The shortage and limmitation of Chinese current policy to fight HIV/AIDS based on the increasing cases of sexual contact among the all kind HIV/AIDS casses lately
Dr. Jiatong Zhuo, Deputy Director, Guangxi Provincial CDC, China

Title: The Role of Microfinance in Fighting HIV/AIDS: The Case of Opportunity International's OVC Project in Three African Countries
Dr. Makonen Getu
, Director for Strategic Alliances/OVC Project Manager, Opportunity International, United States

Title: Disseminating a schools-based, behaviourally effective Sex and Relationships Education programme, from research to service in the UK
Dr. John Rees, Exeter University, UK, APAUSE Programme Manager
Title: Monitoring HIV Risk Behaviours among Adolescents in School Populations: HIV Risk among Asian Youth in Western Canada
Dr. Elizabeth Saewyc, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia School of Nursing, Canada
Title: PREVENTION OF HIV EPIDEMIC IN BANGLADESH : AN EXPERIENCE OF WORKING WITH LAW ENFORCING AGENCIES AND UNFPA
Dr. Zaman Ara, National Professional Project Personnel (NPPP) United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Bangladesh Country Office
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Title: Sustainable HIV /AIDS Programme Financing: Private Sector As Gap and Opportunity
Dr. Adeyemi Egbeleke, Centre for Africa Development Operations Coordination (CADOC)

Session Four: Specific Expertise In HIV-Related Basic Science And Clinical Research-Immunology/Etiology¡ª¢ñ

Place: VIP Meeting Room, 2F, Tianjin Tianbao International Hotel
Time: 08:30-12:00, Dec. 2, 2006

Chair
Name & Organization
Session Chair
Dr. Panayiotis Zavos, Director, Andrology Institute of America, USA
Co-Chair
Dr. Doris B. Tse, Director, Flow Cytometry Core, Center for AIDS Research, New York University School of Medicine, USA
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Name & Organization

Title:Retroviral Integration and Assembly: Targets for Inhibition
Dr. Iva Pichova, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Republic

Title: Use of Stem Cells in Battle Against AIDS
Dr. Panayiotis Zavos, Director, Andrology Institute of America, USA
Title: HIV-1 Vpr as a determinant of cytopathicity in vivo
Dr. Vicente Planelles, Associate Professor of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine

Title: Host Genetics and HIV-1 resistance
Dr. Kalpana Luthra, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, All India Insititute of Medical sciences, India

Title: An 85 amino acid segment of the GB Virus type C NS5A phosphoprotein inhibits HIV-1 replication in CD4+ Jurkat T-cells
Dr. Jinhua XIANG, The university of Iowa & VA, USA
Title: CCR5 expression in HIV Resistance and Co-infection
Dr. Doris B. Tse, Director, Flow Cytometry Core, Center for AIDS Research, New York University School of Medicine, USA
Title: Molecular Basis for Opioids and AIDS Virus Interactions Using Simian AIDS as an animal model
Dr. RONALD Y. CHUANG, Dept. of Med Pharmacology & Toxicology School of Medicine, University of California
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Title: AIDS-associated Guillain*Barre Syndrome and Elevated Anti-Sulfatide Antibodies
Dr. Nizar Souayah, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Director of EMG LAB & Peripheral Neuropathy Center, New Jersey Medical School

Session Five: International HIV/AIDS Programs Cooperation and New Technologies/Products Showcase

Place: Grand Ball Room, 2F, Tianjin Tianbao International Hotel
Time: 08:30-12:00, Dec. 2, 2006

Chair
Name & Organization
Session Chair
Dr. Roger Hershline, CEO, Global Humanceuticals Inc., USA
Co-Chair
Dr. Wang Peng, Director, Department of International Cooperation, China Preventive Medicine Association (CPMA)
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Name & Organization

Title: New Therapeutic Strategies Aimed at Eradicating HIV Infection
Dr. Luc Montagnier, Professor, Center for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Queens College, New York; Pasteur Institute, Paris; and World Foundation AIDS Research and Prevention

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Title: The status of ART scale-up in Zambia: Challenges and successes
Dr. Richard Hughes, Country Director, JHPIEGO Zambia
Title: Potential Strategies for HIV-1 Eradication Exploiting the Effects of Chloroquine
Dr. Andrea Savarino
, Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-mediated Diseases Istituto Superiore di Sanit, Italy
Title: The enhancement of the efficacy of HIV vaccines and AIDS therapies by Pheroid technology
Ms. Anne Grobler, Dept of Pharmaceutics, North-West University, South Africa

Title: Using Appropriate Technology, Systems Approaches, and Public-Private Partnerships to Develop Large-scale ARV Treatment Programs: A Case Study from South Africa
Dr. John Sargent
, President & COO, BroadReach Healthcare, LLC, USA

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Title: Prices Paid vs. Prices Announced: Examining Prices of Antiretrovirals (ARVs) in China
Dr. Elodie Jambert, Pharmacist, Medecins sans Frontieres(MSF), Beijing

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Title: The Humanceuticl Approach
Dr. Roger Hershline, CEO, Global Humanceuticals Inc., USA


Dr. Ralf Panse
Dr. Wang Peng
Title: Chinese-German E-Learning Programme on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Concept ¨C Content - Didactics
Dr. Ralf Panse, Vice-Head Health Division, InWEnt - Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung gGmbH
Dr. Wang Peng, Director, Department of International Cooperation, China Preventive Medicine Association (CPMA)
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Title: From Lab. Bench to People¡¯s Bedside: Technology Transfer in National Institutes of Health
Dr. Sally H. Hu, Technology Licensing Specialist, Infectious Disease & Medical Engineering Group, Office of Technology Transfer, National Institutes of Health, USA
Title: THE LAKE VICTORIA BASIN HIV/AIDS INTEGRATED PROJECT
Mr. John N Mwanga, Executive Director, Action Photoss FAMILY Care, Kenya

Session Six: Proficient Medicinal Chemistry for Better New Anti-HIV Drugs and CADD

Place: No. 1 Meeting Room, 2F, Tianjin Tianbao International Hotel
Time: 08:30-12:00, Dec. 2, 2006

Chair
Name & Organization
Session Chair
Dr. Shibo Jiang, Head of Viral Immunology Laboratory, New York Blood Center, USA
Co-Chair
Dr. Lan Xie, Professor, Beijing Institute of Pharmacology & Toxicology, China
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Name & Organization

Title: Rational design of small molecule HIV-1 entry inhibitors targeting gp41
Dr. Shibo Jiang,
Head of Viral Immunology Laboratory, New York Blood Center, USA

Title: Discovery of Novel HIV-1 Inhibitors
Dr. Yun He
, Associate Director Medicinal Chemistry Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF)

Title: Targeting the HIV-1 Genome: RNA Structure-Based Drug Discovery
Dr. Thomas L. James, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, USA

Title: A Novel Kind of HIV-1 NNRTIs: From Natural Product Suksdorfin to Preclinical Candidates 3¡¯,4¡¯-Di-O-(S)-camphanoyl-(+)-cis-khellactone Analogs (DCKs)
Dr. Lan Xie
, Professor, Beijing Institute of Pharmacology & Toxicology, China

Title: Interaction of HIV-1 integrase and cellular factor and their functional roles during viral replication
Dr. Xiao-jian Yao
, University of Manitoba, Canada
Title: The Discovery of Vicriviroc (Sch 417690), a potent CCR5 Antagonist for Treating HIV Infection
Dr. Jayaram Tagat,
Research Fellow, Medicinal Chemistry, Schering-Plough Research Institute, USA
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Title: Design, Synthesis of Novel Substituted Heterothiadiazines and Heterothiatriazines as Potent HIV-1 NNRTIs
Dr. Xinyong Liu, Institute of Medicinal Chemistry, School of Pharmaceutical Science, Shandong University, China
Title: Discovery of Anti-HIV Drugs Using Computer Aided Drug Design Tool
Dr. Dongqing Wei, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Title: Peptide Reagent Design Based on Physical and Chemical Properties of Amino Acid Residues for HIV Peptide Fusion Inhibitors
Dr. Qishi Du, Institute of Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery, Tianjin Normal University, China
Title: Potential HIV-1 Integrase Inhibitors: Molecular Structures Of Selected Quinoline Derivatives
Dr. Katarzyna Majerz-Maniecka, Robert Musiol, Barbara J. Oleksyn, Jean-Francois Mouscadet, Marc Le Bret, Jaroslaw Polanski

Session Seven: Microbicides: A Powerful New Prevention Tool in the fight against HIV/AIDS

Place: Grand Ball Room, 2F, Tianjin Tianbao International Hotel
Time: 13:30-17:00, Dec. 2, 2006

Chair
Name & Organization
Session Chair
Dr. Alan Stone, Chair of the International Working Group on Microbicides, UK
Co-Chair
Dr. Alexander M. Cole, Associate Professor, Dept. of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, University of Central Florida, USA
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Name & Organization

Title: Key challenges in microbicide development
Dr. Alan Stone,
Chair of the International Working Group on Microbicides, UK

Title: the potential topical application of a new class of tight-binding NNRTIs
Dr. Paolo La Colla
, University of Cagliari , Italy
Title: Development of Retrocyclin as a Topical Microbicide
Dr. Alexander M. Cole, Associate Professor, Dept. of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, University of Central Florida, USA
Title: The effects of Fangxin-KONRAPO (microbiocide) in the prevention of the sexual transmitted diseases and human reproducetive health
Dr. Wu Yan-wan, NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY PLANNING, WHO COLLABORATING CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN HUMAN REPRODUCTION
Title: Development of anti-HIV microbicides for preventing sexual transmission of HIV in China
Dr. Shibo Jiang,
Head of Viral Immunology Laboratory, New York Blood Center, USA
Title: Microbicides and Cervical Barriers: BufferGel and Duet
Dr. Richard A. Cone
, Professor Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University
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Title: The EMPRO and the Stellenbosch University contribution
Prof. Pieter van der Bijl, Head of Pharmacology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

 

Session Eight: The Global Strategies and Effectiveness for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control

Place: VIP Meeting Room, 2F, Tianjin Tianbao International Hotel
Time: 13:30-17:00, Dec. 2, 2006

Chair
Name & Organization
Session Chair
Dr. Jane T. Bertrand, Director, Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
Co-Chair
Dr. Mbopi-Keou FX, University of Yaounde I Cameroon& Ministry of Public Health, Cameroon
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Name & Organization
Title: The Union model to deliver Integrated HIV care for Tuberculosis patients?
Dr. Philippe Clevenbergh, International Union Against Tuberculosis, France

Title : Synergistic interactions between genital herpes infection and HIV in Africa : opportunities for public health interventions
Dr. Mbopi-Keou FX , University of Yaounde I Cameroon& Ministry of Public Health, Cameroon

Title: Social consequences of HIV-positive women's participation in prevention of mother-to-child transmission programmes
Dr. Magnhild Eide, University of Oslo. Norway
Title: TB and HIV co-infection in Eastern-Europe, Collaboration between TB and HIV/AIDS programmes at national level
Dr. Manfred Danilovits, Head, Department of Tuberculosis, Tartu University Clinics, Lung Clinic Estonian National Tuberculosis Program, coordinator
Title: Heightened Vulnerability to HIV-risk among Women and Older African Americans
Dr. Sharon D. Johnson, Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, University of Missouri - St. Louis, USA
Title: Strategies for HIV Prevention in China
Ms. Mariam Khan, Deputy Representative, UNFPA China
Title: HIV/AIDS AND DEVELOPMENT: THE DEVELOPING COUTRIES PERSPECTIVE
Dr. Patrick A. Orege, National AIDS Control Council, Kenya
Title: The Role of Communication in the Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS
Dr. Jane T. Bertrand, Director, Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA

Title: Is Administration of HAART Therapy to Mothers in PMTCT Programs Cost-Effective? The results of the DREAM program.
Dr. Stefano Orlando, Community of Sant'Egidio¨C DREAM program, Italy

Session Nine: Research on HIV Clinic-Testing and Diagnosis

Place: No. 1 Meeting Room, 2F, Tianjin Tianbao International Hotel
Time: 13:30-17:00, Dec. 2, 2006

Chair
Name & Organization
Session Chair
Dr. Freddy Karup Pedersen, Head of the University Clinic of Pediatrics, Copenhagen , Denmark ; Member of The Standing Commission of The International Red Cross
Co-Chair
Dr. Mobeen H. Rathore, Professor and Assistant Chairman, Chief, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Wolfson Children's Hospital and University of Florida Health Science Center/Jacksonville
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Name & Organization

Title: HIV Dementia: A Global Perspective
Dr. Ned Sacktor, Associate Professor of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA

Title: Experiences from treatment with ARV drugs in a setting with less developed health infrastructure
Dr. Freddy Karup Pedersen, Head of the University Clinic of Pediatrics, Copenhagen, Denmark; Member of The Standing Commission of The International Red Cross

Title: The effectiveness of HIV testing and counselling and needle exchange programs to prevent HIV among IDUs; do we need more knowledge?
Dr. Ellen J. Amundsen, Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research

Title: Access to HIV care for Women and Adolescent
Dr. Mobeen H. Rathore
, Professor and Assistant Chairman, Chief, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Wolfson Children's Hospital and University of Florida Health Science Center/Jacksonville

Title: Microcapillary Flow Cytometer Guava PCATM Lowers the Cost of AIDS Diagnosis and Treatment Monitoring with the Easy CD4TM Assay System
Dr. Ramakrishna Machiraju, Guava Technologie, USA

Title: Marker proposed for pre-screening of early HIV infection, determined by simple schematic 1-min face drawing test of "Neolithic Face" Configurations
Dr. Anneliese Alma Pontius, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry (ret,) Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA/USA
Title: The Senegalese Model for scaling up access to antiretroviral drugs: the mentoring approach
Dr. SOW Papa Salif, Department of Infectious Diseases, Dakar University teaching Hospital

Title: Rapid and Synchronous Detection of HIV Type I and II Antibodies by Using Dot Immuno-Gold Filtration Assay
Dr. Yefu Wang, Professor, Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science, Wuhan University, China

Session Ten: Development of Natural Products and TCM as Anti-HIV Drugs

Place: VIP Meeting Room, 2F, Tianjin Tianbao International Hotel
Time: 08:30-12:00, Dec. 3, 2006

Chair
Name & Organization
Session Chair
Mr. Sayyed Ashraf, CEO, Hootone Remedies, India
Co-Chair
Dr. Chin Ho Chen, Center for AIDS Research, Duke University Medical Center, USA
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Name & Organization

Title: HIGHLY EFFECTIVE UNANI MEDICINE HOO-IMM PLUS FOR THE HIV/ AIDS PATIENTS
Mr. Sayyed Ashraf
, CEO, Hootone Remedies, India

Tittle: Actinohivin, a promising anti-HIV protein of microbial origin
Dr. Haruo Tanaka, Director of The Kitasato Institute, Japan

Title: Marine Organisms as a source of anti-HIV activity
Dr. Debashis Mitra
, National Centre for Cell Science, Pune University Campus, India
Title: Approach to Development of Safe entry inhibiting antivirals from natural sources
Dr. Girish J. Kotwal, Professor Division of Medical Virology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Title: Semi-synthesis of potent anti-HIV natural products with novel mechanisms of action
Dr. Chin Ho Chen, Center for AIDS Research, Duke University Medical Center, USA
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Title£ºSulfated NF1 Polysaccharide--A new drug for Anti-HIV (AIDS)
Professor Xi Chen, Life science school, Nanjing University, China

Session Eleven: Specific Expertise In HIV-Related Basic Science And Clinical Research-Immunology/Etiology¡ª¢ò

Place: Grand Ball Room, 2F, Tianjin Tianbao International Hotel
Time: 08:30-12:00, Dec. 3, 2006

Chair
Name & Organization
Session Chair
Dr. Carlos Trabulo, Boehringer Ingelheim, Portugal 
Co-Chair
Dr. Margalit Lorber, Rambam Medical Center, Israel
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Name & Organization

Title: Covariation Analysis of the Amino Acid Sequence of HIV-1 Subtype B Protease and its Gag-Pol Cleavage Sites
Dr. Viktor M¨¹ller
, Eotvos Lorand University, Institute of Biology, Hungary

Title: Sperm washing in HIV Discordant Couples - a mean of risk-reduction in HIV discordant couples wishing to have a child
Dr. Margalit Lorber, Rambam Medical Center, Israel

Title: Opportunistic infections: What do we learn from Southeast Asia?
Dr. Veeranoot
Nissapatorn, Department of Parasitology, University of Malaya, Malaya

Title: THE INVOLVEMENT OF THE BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER IN HIV-1 INFECTION
Dr. Michal Toborek, Molecular Neuroscience and Vascular Biology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky Medical Center, USA

Title£ºNeuropsychiatric effects of HIV
Dr. Igor Grant, University of California, San Diego, USA
Title: Depression and Suicidality in HIV/AIDS in China
Dr. Hua Jin, Assistant Clinical Professor, University of California, San Diego, USA

Session Twelve: Current Research and Perspectives of anti-HIV Antibodies

Place: No. 1 Meeting Room, 2F, Tianjin Tianbao International Hotel
Time: 08:30-10:00, Dec. 3, 2006

Chair
Name & Organization
Session Chair
Dr. Miguel E. Quinones-Mateu, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Lerner Research Institute
Co-Chair
Dr. Shilpa J. Buch, Dept. Molecular & Integrative Physiology Kansas University Medical Center, USA
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Name & Organization
Title: Condom Use for HIV prevention: Lessons from South Africa
Dr. Pranitha Maharaj, School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
Title: Therapy of SHIV-Infected Macaques with Antisense DNA of Interleukin-4
Dr. Shilpa J. Buch, Dept. Molecular & Integrative Physiology Kansas University Medical Center, USA

Session Thirteen: New Strategies and Technologies to Solve HIV Drug Resistance and Treatment

Place: No. 1 Meeting Room, 2F, Tianjin Tianbao International Hotel
Time: 10:00-12:00, Dec. 3, 2006

Chair
Name & Organization
Session Chair
Dr. Miguel E. Quinones-Mateu, Diagnostic Hybrids, Inc., Athens, OH, USA
Co-Chair
Dr. Shilpa J. Buch, Dept. Molecular & Integrative Physiology Kansas University Medical Center, USA
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Name & Organization
Title: The preliminary impression of Lamivudine/Zidovudine (3TC/ZDV) plus Efavirenz (EFV)Treatment in China
Dr. Yunzhen Cao, Professor, Clinical Director, The AIDS Research Center, CAMS, PUMC, China
Title: Using EGFP- and DsRed2-tagged viruses to study HIV-1 drug resistance, replicative fitness, and tropism
Dr. Miguel E. Quinones-Mateu
, Diagnostic Hybrids, Inc., Athens, OH, USA
Title: Diminished Anti-retroviral Therapy (ART) Exposure and improved Virological and Immune outcomes with Therapeutic Vaccination after ART intensification, GM-CSF and Hydroxyurea in Chronic HIV disease: a 5%-year pilot trial (CTN 140 study)
Dr. Emil Toma
, MD, DSc, FRCP(C), Department of Microbiology & Immunology-University of Montreal, Canada
Title: HIV-1 fitness impact factors within its genome
Dr. Yong Gao
, Division of Infectious Diseases, Center for AIDS Research, Case Western Reserve University

Session Fourteen: Research on HIV Clinic-The Research/ Treatment/ Prognosis on HIV and Complication In HIV-Infected Patients

Place: VIP Meeting Room, 2F, Tianjin Tianbao International Hotel
Time: 13:30-17:00, Dec. 3, 2006

Chair
Name & Organization
Session Chair
Dr. Anders Vahlne, Professor & Head, Division of Clinical Virology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Co-Chair
Dr. Giorgio Barbarini, Chief of Outpatients' Structure, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Foundation IRCCS San Matteo University of Pavia, Italy
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Name & Organization

Title: Hiv Infection And The Cardiovascular System
Dr. Giorgio Barbarini, Chief of Outpatients' Structure, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Foundation IRCCS San Matteo University of Pavia, Italy

Title:Renal issues in HIV infected patients
Dr. Mohamed G. Atta
, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA

Title: Comparison of ARV service models in rural South Africa
Dr. Helmuth Reuter, Ukwanda Centre for Rural Health, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

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Title: An Oral Health Program for HIV/AIDS Patients and Orphans in a Developing Country
Dr. Elaine Blignaut, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Limpopo, South Africa

Title: HIV Vaccine Trial and HIV Treatment /Complications in a Caribbean Island
Prof. Courtenay Bartholome, Director of Medical Research Foundation of Trinidad and Tobago

Title: SR-01 HIV care for pregnant women at Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand
Dr. Anuvat Roongpisuthipong, Department of OB-GYN, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand

Title: New strategies for HIV-1 therapeutic intervention
Dr. Anders Vahlne, Professor & Head, Division of Clinical Virology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Title: Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection and Cardiovascular Diseases
Dr. Adnan I. Qureshi, Director, Cerebrovascular Program, Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Research Center, USA

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