36 - Beyond Antibiotics: Immunotherapy of Infectious Diseases

Speaker(s)

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  Marina Caskey, MD

  Associate Professor of Clinical Investigation
  Rockefeller University
  New York, NY

  Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
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  Liise-anne Pirofski, MD

  Mitrani Professor of Biomedical Research and Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
  Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center
  Bronx, New York

  Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

CME Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
MOC Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of MOC Credit
ACPE Credits: ACPE 1.25 Knowledge-based contact hours of pharmacy CE
ACPE Number: 0221-9999-20-455-L01-P

Learning Objectives:

• explain the role of antibody therapy in infectious disease
• express the rationale for immune based therapies as an alternative to antivirals
• describe modern monoclonal antibody screening and production in therapeutic development

Presentations:

• 3:45pm – 5:00pm EDT

  Antibody Based Therapies of HIV
  Marina Caskey, MD – Rockefeller University
• 3:45pm – 5:00pm EDT

  Immunotherapy for Infectious Diseases: Deja Vu All over Again
  Liise-anne Pirofski, MD – Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center