HIV/AIDS Research: Its History & Future

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is pleased to announce the sixth meeting on the history of science organized by the Laboratory's Genentech Center for the History of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology and the CSHL Meetings & Courses Program. Entitled "HIV/AIDS Research: Its History & Future", this meeting will seek to address the history of HIV/AIDS research over the last three decades. The meeting will begin at 7:30 pm on Thursday, October 13, and finish with a public event in the late afternoon on Sunday, October 16, 2016. The history of HIV/AIDS is rich and complex. Never before have the pioneers of the science of retroviruses, the discoverers of human retroviruses, the developers of HIV/AIDS therapeutics, and key figures in important research findings come together to discuss the history of the field. Together, this interdisciplinary group will review the key scientific, epidemiological, and clinical discoveries that created this field. The meeting will also touch upon the present science of HIV/AIDS and the paths to the future control of this global pandemic, which, tragically, has persisted for more than 35 years.