International Society for Antiviral Research

The 2019 ICAR will begin on Sunday, May 12, 2019, and will conclude on Wednesday, May 15, 2019.  The confirmed invited speakers are listed below as well as their talk titles.  Click here to view the speakers' bios. 

2019 ICAR PROGRAM & ABSTRACTS BOOK

Invited Speakers & Talk Titles

New antivirals for chronic hepatitis B

Timothy Block 

In search of novel antivirals using structure-based drug design approaches

Andrea Brancale

Therapeutic strategies to combat cytomegalovirus infection

Rhonda Cardin 

Effects of Broadly Neutralizing Antibody Combinations in HIV-1 Infection

Marina Caskey

Polio eradication: need for antivirals and progress to date

Marc S. Collett

Human retroviruses (HTLV-1 and HIV): Current therapy and prevention

Robert Gallo

Long-acting, slow effective release antiretroviral therapy

Howard Gentleman

Small molecules for big problems in large animals

Nesya Goris

Measles: a role for virus persistence?

Diane Griffin 

Development of medical countermeasures against Nipah virus: A field perspective

Emily Gurley

 

Update on influenza polymerase inhibitors

Frederick Hayden 

A universal influenza virus vaccine based on the conserved stalk of the hemagglutinin

Florian Krammer

Remdesivir (GS-5734), a broad-spectrum antiviral agent

Richard Mackman 

Novel utilization of smallpox medical countermeasures – challenges to vaccination against endemic Orthopoxvirus disease (Monkeypox)

Victoria Olson 

Antivirals against chikungunya virus from a medchem perspective: challenges and lessons learned

María-Jesús Pérez-Pérez

The Advancement of HIV NRTTIs for extended-duration dosing

Izzat Raheem 

Research for preparedness for arboviruses and hemorrhagic fever viruses in subsaharan Africa

Amadou Sall

A retrospective of rational (and sometimes irrational!) nucleoside design modifications

Kathie Seley-Radtke

101 years of influenza: Lessons from the 1918 pandemic

Jeffery Taubenberger

Having an impact: Implementing WHO’s global program on MERS

Maria Van Kerkhove

Antivirals against dengue and Zika: new findings and future prospects

Subhash Vasudevan

The interplay between virus and host innate immunity

Yan-Yi Wang

Can we predict arbovirus epidemics?

Scott Weaver