March 6 – 8, 2025
Hyatt Palm Springs, CA
The 2025 Palm Springs Symposium on HIV/AIDS will be March 6–8, 2025 in Palm Springs, CA. This is the thirty first of an annual series of conferences organized by the UCLA-CDU CFAR, UCI Cancer Research Institute, and the UCLA AIDS Institute. The aim of this conference is to provide the latest information and to facilitate discussion between researchers both in HIV/AIDS and in related disciplines. The 2025 meeting will address various aspects of HIV infection, ranging from basic aspects of HIV replication, host restriction factors and immunity, immunopathogenesis, and approaches to preventing and controlling infection.
The conference is scheduled for Thursday, March 6th through Saturday, March 8th. All events (including scientific sessions, meeting accommodations and meal functions) will be held at the Hyatt Palm Springs in CA. Scientific sessions will begin on March 6th and conclude the evening of March 8th. Meeting registration includes lodging for the nights of March 6-8, allowing for departure on Sunday, March 9th.
EVENT DETAILS
Alvin Yu, PhD (UCLA)
Anjie Zhen, PhD (UCLA)
Ashwanth Francis, PhD (Florida State University)
Bruce Torbett, PhD, MSPH (Seattle Children’s Research Institute)
Catherine Blish, PhD (Stanford University)
Christopher Aiken, PhD (Vanderbilt University)
Deborah Persaud, MD (Johns Hopkins University)
Frank Maldarelli, MD, PhD (NCI)
Hillel Haim, MD, PhD (University of Iowa)
Kamel Khalili, PhD (Temple University)
Karin Musier-Forsyth, PhD (Ohio State University)
Lesley Parent, MD (Pennsylvania State University)
Maolin Lu, PhD (University of Texas at Tyler)
Mathias Lichterfeld, MD, PhD (Brigham and Women’s Hospital)
Michael Emerman, PhD (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
Michael R. Betts, PhD (University of Pennsylvania)
Pamela Bjorkman, PhD (Caltech)
Ron Derosiers, PhD (Miami Miller School of Medicine)
REGISTER TODAY!!
To attend the meeting, please complete the registration, linked below, by Monday, February 10th, 2025.
Registration Costs:
Single Occupancy: $1,200
Double Occupancy: $750
Meeting only $400
Payment Methods: Registration costs must be paid using credit card ONLY.
Once submitted, you will receive a confirmation email from noreply@finance.ucla.edu with Subject Line: Thank you for your payment. Please feel free to reach out to us if you do not receive a confirmation.
- Presentation Type: Please indicate if you’re submitting for a short oral presentation, a poster presentation, or if you have no preference.
- Notification: We will inform you whether your abstract has been accepted for a talk or a poster in late February. After the deadline, only abstracts for poster presentations will be accepted.
- Submission: Email your abstract to Jina Lee
Abstract Formatting Requirements:
- Must be limited to one page.
- Use Arial font size 11 on 8.5” x 11” paper.
- Maintain one-inch margins on all sides.
- Include a bold title and your institutional information.
- Underline the presenter or speaker’s name.
Poster Presentations:
- Posters should measure 36” x 48” (can be oriented vertically or horizontally).
- Clips and pins will be available on-site.
The conference begins on Thursday, March 6th and ends the evening of Saturday, March 8th.
Registration includes lodging with check-in on 3/6 and check-out on 3/9. You will receive a hotel confirmation email late February 2024. If you need additional nights added on, please contact Rina Lee-Cha (rlee@mednet.ucla.edu) to arrange for the additional nights. Do not contact the hotel separately.
Registration includes the following meals: Breakfast on 3/7 and 3/8, Lunch on 3/7 and 3/8 and Dinner on 3/8 only.
Program books will be available during the on-site registration.
More information coming soon…
Scott G. Kitchen, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology
Director, UCLA Humanized Mouse Core Laboratory
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Matthew D. Marsden, PhD
Associate Director, Center for Virus Research
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Department of Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases)
University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Jerome A. Zack, PhD
Associate Director, UCLA AIDS Institute
Professor, Departments of Medicine, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Hung Fan, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Virology & Molecular Biology
University of California, Irvine
Donald Forthal, MD
Professor of Medicine and Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
Chief, Infectious Diseases
University of California, Irvine
Jina Lee
Managing Director, UCLA-CDU CFAR
Administrator, UCLA AIDS Institute
Rina Lee-Cha
Administrator, UCLA-CDU CFAR
Administrative Coordinator, AIDS Institute
Be advised, third-party companies, Ehotel Services, Exhibitor Housing Services (EHS) – also known as Exhibitor Housing Management (EHM) and Business Travel Management (BTM), are targeting conference speakers and attendees with a fraudulent travel and hotel booking scheme. The company is calling and/or emailing conference speakers and attendees and falsely claiming it is the “official” housing bureau and/or authorized by the Palm Springs HIV/AIDS Meeting to book hotel and/or travel accommodations for the conference. This is entirely FALSE. The company makes a number of FALSE and FRAUDULENT claims about the conference designed to obtain your credit card so please be aware and do not respond to this scheme.
If you have special requests, questions or comments regarding the meeting (i.e. rooming, meeting support, dependent care support, abstract submissions), please contact Ms. Jina Lee