Cvr Podcast Contagious Thinking

Here, on World AIDS day, we meet Dr Clare Jolly, HIV virologist, about her work and her groups work on how HIV spreads from cell-to-cell and what this means for antiviral treatment and vaccination. Clare is a Senior Research Fellow in the Division of Infection & Immunity at University College London and was at the CVR earlier this year to give a seminar on her work Importantly, Tuesday 1st December 2016, marks world AIDS day, which (as their website says) is an is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate people who have died. World AIDS Day is important because it reminds the public and Government that HIV has not gone away – there is still a vital need to raise money, increase awareness, fight prejudice and improve education. Like the Jolly Lab, CVR investigators carry out comprehensive research on HIV and related retroviruses, looking at HIV evolution in patients, animal retroviruses, cancer-causing retro

The CVR meets Mary Collins who talked to us a bit about the past, present and future of gene therapy and how we are using viruses to cure human disease. Mary is Professor of Immunology in the Division of Infection and Immunity at University College London, the head of the Division of Advanced Therapies at the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, and the Director of the Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Molecular Virology. Image credit: BruceBlaus (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Edited intro/outro music credit: 'Take me higher' by 'Jahzzar'. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Tumbling_Dishes_Like_Old-Mans_Wishes/Take_Me_Higher_1626 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

The CVR meets Professor Geoff Smith, FRS FMedSci FIBiol, head of the department of pathology at the University of Cambridge, to talk about his work on poxviruses and regulation of the innate immune response. Image credit: Geoff Smith website (http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/geoffrey-smith) Edited intro/outro music credit: 'Take me higher' by 'Jahzzar'. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Tumbling_Dishes_Like_Old-Mans_Wishes/Take_Me_Higher_1626 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).