amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research invites you to a Capitol Hill briefing A Cure for HIV/AIDS: Recent Breakthroughs and New Research Frontiers

Join us for a discussion with “the Berlin Patient” and leading cure scientists

Finding a cure is essential to ending the AIDS epidemic. Today’s HIV/ Wednesday AIDS treatments can keep patients alive longer than ever before and June 20, 2012 also significantly reduce infection transmission rates, but they do not cure AIDS. With 34 million people infected with HIV globally, more 12:00 – 4:00 p.m. than 50,000 new cases reported in the U.S. each year, and infection rates rising in many areas of the world, the number of people living with HIV/AIDS far outpaces our ability to treat them. Dirksen Senate “The Berlin patient,” the first person who by all measurements has Office Building been cured of HIV/AIDS, will discuss his remarkable experience, what Room 430 advances from research have meant to him, and the hope it brings for others. Researchers at the cutting edge of scientific discovery will Washington, D.C. discuss a range of novel approaches being explored (including stem cells, gene therapy, medications, and immune response modifications Lunch will be provided. such as therapeutic vaccines) in the search for a cure for HIV/AIDS. The importance of innovative collaborative initiatives as well as the RSVP policy implications of this research will also be highlighted. [email protected] This amfAR Capitol Hill briefing will highlight: or (202) 331-8600 • Patient perspectives in the search for a cure • Recent scientific advances • Novel research strategies in the quest for a cure • The importance of public/private sector partnerships and collaboration • Policy implications

BRIEFING AGENDA

Moderator The First Person Known to Be Cured of AIDS: Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.A. A Patient’s Perspective Senior Policy and Medical Advisor Timothy Ray Brown amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research “The Berlin Patient” and Beyond Former Assistant Surgeon General of the United States Interviewed by Judy Woodruff Co-anchor and Senior Correspondent PBS News Hour

Panel I: Innovative Research Frontiers

Paula Cannon, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Pediatrics, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California

Keith R. Jerome, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Microbiology University of Washington Associate Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Robert Siliciano, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Medicine, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Peter Hunt, M.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine, HIV/AIDS Division University of California, San Francisco

Panel II: Charting New Research and Policy Directions

Carl Dieffenbach, Ph.D. Director, Division of AIDS National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Institutes of Health

Rowena Johnston, Ph.D. Vice President and Director, Research amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research

Jerome A. Zack, Ph.D. Professor of Medicine Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics Director, UCLA Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Chris Collins, M.P.P. Vice President and Director, Public Policy amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research