Welcome

Workshop on HIV—Exposed and Resistant

July 8–9, 2010
Crowne Plaza Rockville Hotel
Rockville, MD

The primary objectives of this workshop are to continue the momentum achieved with the International Symposium on Natural Immunity to HIV (ISNIH) http://www.icid.com/isnih/ held in November 2009 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and to identify the next steps to investigate this phenomenon. The three workshop sessions will hopefully lead us to:

• Develop specific definitions of "high exposure" and "uninfected or HIV-resistant" within each mode of transmission
• Identify categories of assays that would be most useful for studies to elucidate mechanisms
• Brainstorm on key questions that are most important to answer as well as novel, out-of-the-box ideas for moving the field forward

Participants will be asked during online registration to identify one question they think is important to be answered as quickly as possible and one out-of-the-box idea. Prior to the meeting we will compile these questions and ideas, and they will serve as the starting point for this discussion about future studies.