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HIV/AIDS research, innovation and remaining challenges featured during SFU’s President’s Dream Colloquium

Contact: Ian Bryce, Communications and Marketing, 604-773-8134, ian_bryce@sfu.ca This spring, Simon Fraser University’s President’s Dream Colloquium focuses on HIV/AIDS. The seven-part public lecture series, which launched on January 8th, will continue to explore issues in HIV including recent medical research developments, criminalization and HIV disclosure, harm reduction for individuals who inject drugs, and Indigenous and

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Top SFU News stories of 2018

Being named Canada’s top comprehensive university for the 10th time in 11 years capped an electrifying 2018 at SFU. This past year saw the arrival of the university’s two Canada 150 chairs as well as the high-profile joint-conferral (with UBC) of an honorary doctorate of laws degree on His Highness the Aga Khan. Here’s a

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Genotypic and Mechanistic Characterization of Subtype-Specific HIV Adaptation to Host Cellular Immunity

Can you provide a brief overview of your lab’s current research focus? The Brumme laboratory at SFU and the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS integrates molecular biology, epidemiology and computational approaches to examine questions at the interface of HIV virology, immunology and pathogenesis with the ultimate goal of preventing and curing HIV infection. What

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B.C. researchers identify multiple strains of HIV ‘time bombs’ hibernating in cells

B.C. researchers have discovered a way to identify multiple strains of HIV that lay dormant in the cells of an individual. HIV evolves continually while it is active, storing versions of itself in the DNA of infected cells that then go dormant, waiting to reactivate at some future date, like an archive of genetically unique

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Human Resources & Education For the record, September 4, 2018

HEALTH/MEDICAL Dr. Zabrina Brumme has been appointed director at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Canada’s leading HIV laboratory program. Brumme will be on secondment from her position as associate professor in the faculty of health sciences at Simon Fraser University (SFU); she joined SFU in 2009 as assistant professor, molecular epidemiology of infectious

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The BC-CfE Laboratory is streamlining reporting processes for certain tests in order to simplify distribution and record-keeping, and to ensure completeness of results. Beginning September 2, 2025, results for the ‘Resistance Analysis of HIV-1 Protease and Reverse Transcriptase’ (Protease-RT) and ‘HIV-1 Integrase Resistance Genotype’ tests will be combined into a single ‘HIV-1 Resistance Genotype Report’.
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