General
Please join us online on October 3rd 2023, 4.00 pm - 5.00 pm
Keynote speaker: Dawit Wolday
Immunogenetic Risks and COVID-19 Clinical Outcomes.
Dr. Dawit received his MD (1987) and MSc (1993) in Medical Microbiology from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He then completed his PhD in the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (2000) at Karolinska Institute in Sweden. In 2022, Dawit was working at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health Systems, in Toronto, before joining the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences at McMaster University in 2023.
His research interests focus on the role of chronic immune activation on the pathophysiology of disease progression of viral diseases, and pathogen genomic epidemiology in low-income countries. Dr. Dawit has received several research grant awards, and has published 115 scientific manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals, and 2 book sections. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trial Partnership (EDCTP).
Young investigator in the spotlight - short talk: Norbert van dijk
Visceral leishmaniasis | The road towards improved management and control of a deadly neglected disease.
AII TV Seminar structure: 16.00 introduction speakers by host, 16.05 short talk young investigator, 16.15 keynote speaker, 16.45 discussion, 17.00 after talk.