AIDS Research and Therapy

Featured collection: HIV Innovation

In early 2017, a diverse group of Australian clinicians with a common interest in HIV infection and its management was assembled to develop a program for a two-day event held in late August of 2017, the ‘HIV innovation forum’.  Here, we present practical overview of the Forum’s proceedings for busy clinicians to  communicate, educate and provide the practical advice offered by all invited speakers with a view to developing a program to help helping all those who live with HIV  to live full, healthy lives to the greatest extent possible. 

Dr Eric Arts

Eric J Arts is Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Western University in London, Canada. His research for the past 16 years described in over 120 publications has focused on HIV-1 fitness, evolution, and virulence in regards to transmission, disease progression, immune escape, drug resistance, and global HIV spread.

Since 1998, he has directed the research laboratories at the Joint Clinical Research Centre, Kampala, Uganda and has collaborated with investigators in Zimbabwe, China, Cameroon, Belgium, UK, France, Brazil, and Argentina. His research has been supported by grants from the NIH (NIAID, NICHD, and NHLBI), from the State of Ohio, Merck, and amfAR. He has served as chair and member of the NIH and CIHR grant panel and has reviewed grants for the many governments around the world.

Dr Mark Boyd

Dr Mark Boyd is Professor and Chair of Medicine at the University of Adelaide based at the Lyell McEwin Hospital. He is the current President of the Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine (ASHM).

Dr Boyd has published the SECOND-LINE and Encore1 studies, the results of which have been incorporated into the most recent (2016) WHO integrated guidelines for the management of HIV-infection.

In 2014, Dr Boyd was awarded the prestigious Frank Fenner Prize for Advanced Research in Infectious Diseases by the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (ASID). Dr Boyd has attracted over 20 million AUD in research funding from government, industry and non-government organisational sources. He collaborates with colleagues in HIV clinical research worldwide, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region.