HBF Emerging Researchers Workshop
Sept. 11, 2024 - 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. CDT
"Career Pathways and Hot Topics in Hepatitis B, D and Liver Cancer."
The Hepatitis B Foundation will be hosting the Emerging Researchers Workshop on Sept. 11. The topic is, "Career Pathways and Hot Topics in Hepatitis B, D and Liver Cancer."
It's open to all Early Career Scientists (non-independent and emerging researcher: students, postdocs and young investigators) attending the International HBV Meeting. Come discuss relevant topics in hepatitis B research, and network with others.
PLEASE NOTE: Registration is required. That can be done through the main HBV Meeting registration portal.
- 8 a.m. Registration, breakfast, networking and icebreaker challenge
- 9 a.m. Welcome
-Timothy Block, PhD, Co-Founder and Immediate Past President, Hepatitis B Foundation and Baruch S. Blumberg Institute
- 9:10 a.m. Priority research questions for HBV, HDV, HCC – report from 2023 workshop
- Chari Cohen, President, Hepatitis B Foundation; Professor, Baruch S. Blumberg Institute
- Thomas Tu, Associate Professor, Westmead Institute; Co-Founder and Director, Hepatitis B Voices Australia and HepBCommunity.org
- 9:30 a.m. Choose your Path panel session: Career pathways in hepatitis B, D, and liver cancer
- Moderator: Thomas Tu
- Panelists:
• Antonio Bertoletti, MD, Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School
• Alexander Koenig, PhD, Scientific Investigator, GSK
• Florian Lempp, PhD, MSc, Senior Research Director, Humabs BioMed, Vir Biotechnology
• Ulrike Protzer, MD, Professor and Chair, Virology, Institute of Virology, Technical University of Munich
• Josh Radke, PhD, Program Officer, Drug Discovery and Preclinical Research Branch, Division of AIDS, NIAID
• Hélène Strick-Marchand, PhD, Group Leader Research Scientist, Institut Pasteur
• Liudi Tang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Baruch S. Blumberg Institute
- 11 a.m. Interactive Roundtable Discussions
- Career reflections (15 minutes)
- Journal club (30 minutes discussion, 15 minutes report out)
Table leads: Lena Alweiss (Table 1), Jochen Wetengel (Table 2), Molly Woodson (Table 3), Barbara Testoni (Table 4), Margaret Litlejohn (Table 5), Nina LaBert (Table 6), Gregor Ebert (Table 7), Eloi Verrier (Table 8), Holly Walden (Table 9), Lefteris Michailidis (Table 10)
- 12 p.m. Lunch and networking
- 1 p.m. Conclusion - Chari Cohen and Thomas Tu
Chari A. Cohen, DrPH, MPH, president of the Hepatitis B Foundation, opened the Emerging Researchers Workshop at the 2023 International HBV Meeting in Kobe.