Witte Lecture

The 2024 Bruce Witte Lecture, "Understanding Viral Persistence to Cure Hepatitis B Virus Infection" presented by Fabien Zoulim, MD, PhD

About Dr. Zoulim:

Dr. Zoulim is Professor of Medicine at Lyon I University since 1997. He is Head of the Hepatology Department at the Hospices Civils de Lyon, and Head of the INSERM laboratory on Pathobiology and Therapy of Liver Diseases. He founded the Lyon Hepatology Institute in 2023. Dr. Zoulim is Associate Editor for GUT, and also served as a Governing Board member of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL). His research is focusing on the mechanisms of HBV persistence to find a cure for HBV. He is also coordinating the ANRS “HBV cure” Task Force in France since 2014, and co-founded the International Coalition to Eliminate HBV in 2016 (ICE-HBV). For his research on “HBV cure”, Dr. Zoulim received the 2004 William Prusoff and the 2023 Gertrude Elion awards of the International Society for Antiviral Research, and the 2022 Distinguished Award in HBV Research from the International HBV meeting. 

 

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The Witte Lectureship was established by Hepatitis B Foundation Cofounders, Janine and Paul Witte, in remembrance of their son, Bruce, to allow for a distinguished leader in the field to visit the Hepatitis B Foundation and Blumberg Institute to make a presentation and meet with scientists and public health leaders. It is the HBF's most important named lecture. Previous Witte Lecturers include: Harvey Alter (Nobel Prize laureate), Frank Chisari, Charles Rice (Nobel Prize laureate), John Taylor, John Gerin, Raymond Schinazi, Raymond Dwek, Rafi Ahmed, Adrian DiBisceglie, Steve Locarnini, Dennis Liotta, John Martin, Stanley Lemon, Marion Peters and Barbara Rehermann​​​​​​​.

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