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University of California, San Diego
Susan Little, M.D. is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She is the Director of the Primary Infection Research Program and Co-Director of the UCSD Antiviral Research Center. Dr. Little’s research interests include the pathogenesis, prevention and treatment of acute and very recent HIV infection and the use of molecular epidemiologic methods to infer and characterize HIV transmission networks. She also studies factors that contribute to HIV transmission and novel diagnostic strategies to identify acutely infected individuals. She is actively involved in the training and mentoring of students, post-doctoral research fellows and junior faculty. She is an investigator of the San Diego Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and serves as Chair of the CFAR Ending the Epidemic Scientific Working Group. She is an investigator of the San Diego AIDS Clinical Trials Unit (ACTU) and a member of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) Antiretroviral Therapy Strategies Transformative Science Group. She is also a member of HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) Representative to the Public Health Committee of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). Most recently, she has taken an active role in the COVID-19 Prevention Network (CoVPN), leading Phase III efficacy trials for COVID-19 vaccines and monoclonal antibodies.
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Thursday, October 22, 2020
3:45pm – 5:00pm EDT
