Thomas J. Weaver AIDS Education Lecture: The Dean's Grand Rounds
“Lipid Rafts, Cholesterol, and HIV: A New Concept for Chemical Condoms“
12:00 p.m., Monday, October 10, 2005
Wood Auditorium, UT Medical Center
 Speaking at this noon luncheon will be James Earl King Hildreth, Ph.D., M.D., Director of the Meharry Center for Health Disparities Research in HIV. Dr. Hildreth is also Professor in both the Department of Internal Medicine and the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Meharry Medical College .
Dr. Hildreth graduated magna cum laude in chemistry from Harvard University in 1979. Then he became a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University where he received his doctorate in Immunology in 1982. Five years later he earned his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. He spent 17 years as a professor at Johns Hopkins University.
In 2001, Dr. Hildreth was appointed chief of the Division of Research at the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities for the National Institutes of Health. His research is based on his academic team's discovery that "cholesterol is active in HIV's ability to penetrate cells and that removing fatty material from a cell's membrane can block infection."
A list of Dr. Hildreth's current publications can be found on PubMED.
Registration
The deadline for registration is October 3, 2005. Registration is limited.
Registration and light lunch begins at 11:30 am. For additional information, call or email Lucille Simpson @ 305-9472.
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