2022
Monday Mon
PST: ZOOM
PATHOLOGY GRAND ROUNDS
Guest Lecturer: Paula Cannon, PhD
"Genome Editing B cells for Custom Antibodies"
Zoom meeting ID:
https://stanford.zoom.us/j/94734625227?pwd=cCtzNWlRQ1pXN3lGMExGWko2S3RSdz09
Please note: This meeting requires a password, please contact Roomana Patel at roomana@stanford.edu or 650-725-9352 for more information.
The Pathology Grand Rounds is open to those affiliated with Stanford University Medical Center and invited guests only. The objective is to increase knowledge in the field of Pathology. There is no commercial support received for this course unless otherwise specified. This lecture is hosted by Stanford Pathology Faculty.
About the Speaker
Paula Cannon, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
Associate Director of Cross School Programs, MESH Academy
Special Advisor to the Provost
Dept. Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
Keck School of Medicine, USC
Paula Cannon, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Microbiology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, where she leads a research team that studies viruses, stem cells and gene therapy. She obtained her PhD from the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom, and received postdoctoral training as an HIV scientist at both Oxford and Harvard universities. Although HIV remains the main focus of her work, she also studies highly pathogenic hemorrhagic fever viruses, including Ebola and Lassa fever viruses. Cannon has a long-standing interest in the development of gene therapy as a clinical approach to treating HIV infection, and her recent work in this area is aimed at disrupting the viral co-receptor, CCR5, using zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs). This approach is being evaluated in human hematopoietic stem cells to address whether such a therapy could result in a functional cure for AIDS patients. Cannon’s research is funded by both the National Institutes of Health and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.