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Webinar: Immune Control and Evasion of Viral Infection
The Walker Laboratory focuses on learning from patients to determine how the body fights back against viral infection, using HIV as a highly relevant example, trying to uncover mechanisms by which it succeeds and, importantly, why it usually fails.
Speaker
Bruce Walker, MD
Principal Investigator and Director, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard
Co-Founder, Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness
Director, Harvard University Center for AIDS Research
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and MIT
When
March 8, 2022
2PM ET

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