European Meeting on HIV & Hepatitis 2019

Over 300 participants from all over the world attended the 17th edition of the European Meeting on HIV & Hepatitis that took place on 22-24 May 2019 at the Roma Eventi - Fontana di Trevi Conference Centre in Rome, Italy. The Organizing Committee would like to thank all the invited speakers and participants for their contribution to this meeting!

We are grateful to our supporters ViiV Healthcare, Gilead Sciences and Janssen for making this event possible.

We would also like to congratulate the RICARDO CAMACHO AWARD winners:

Roberta Gagliardini, Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute For Infectious Diseases Irccs, Rome, Italy for Poster presentation entitled "Impact of resistance mutations on virological efficacy of DTG-based maintenance two-drug regimens: a cohort study".

Laura Hebberecht, AIDS Reference Laboratory Ugent, Gent, Belgium, for Oral abstract presentation entitled  "Single genome sequencing of near full-length HIV-1 RNA".

General Information 

The members of the Program Committee assist the Organizing Committee by providing them with suggestions for the scientific program. In addition, they participate in reviewing abstracts and play an active role during the workshop as moderators and/or chairs of sessions.

The members of the Organizing Committee are a group of carefully selected experts and inspirational leaders in their respective fields. They meet frequently to discuss the scientific program of the workshop, identify interesting topics and candidate speakers, and review all submitted abstracts.

The members of Scientific Committee are hand-picked by the Organizing Committee and the conference secretariat based on their significant contributions and commitment to the field. They assist the Organizing Committee by providing them with suggestions for speakers and topics. In addition, members of the Scientific Committee participate in reviewing submitted abstracts, and play an active role during the workshop as moderators and/or chairs of sessions.

• Carlos Beltran, MD - Chilean AIDS Group, Chile
• Marina Bobkova, PhD - Ivanovsky Institute of Virology, Russia
• Rolf Kaiser, PhD - University of Cologne, Germany
• Leon Kostrikis, PhD - University of Cyprus, Cyprus
• Clive Loveday, PhD - ICVC Charitable Trust, Clinical Virology, UK
• Monique Nijhuis, PhD - University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Netherlands
• Mario Poljak, MD, PhD - Institute for Microbiology and Immunology, Slovenia
• Gary Rubin, MD - University of Toronto, Canada
• Anders Sönnerborg, MD, PhD - Karolinska Institut, Sweden
• Jan Albert, MD - Karolinska Institute, Sweden
• Janusz Stanczak, PhD - University of Warsaw, Poland
• David van de Vijver, PharmD PhD - Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
• Hauke Walter, MD - Medizinisches Labor Stendhal, Germany
• Maurizio Zazzi, PhD - University of Siena, Italy
• Milosz Parczewski, MD, PhD - Pomeranian Medical University, Poland
• Maria Santoro, MD - University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy