Topic: Coronavirus - Pest or Pestilence? Speaker: Mark Denison, MD, Director, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
When? Wednesday, Feb 26 (Registration and check-in 6 to 6:30 PM; Presentation 6:30 PM) Where? Coco's Italian Market Event Center, 5105 Alabama Ave, Nashville
Dr. Denision is the Edward Stahlman Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, and Director of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The Denison Lab has been NIH-funded for investigation of coronavirus replication, pathogenesis, evolution, and countermeasures for over 25 years.
The Denison lab BSL3 and select agent research program currently focuses on:
Discovery of antivirals broadly active against known and potential zoonotic CoVs;
Testing of antibodies against MERS and emerging CoVs, and;
Identification of novel determinants of replication as targets for inhibition or virus attenuation in vaccines.
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