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About the Organizers:

The Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise (the Enterprise) is a one-of-a-kind alliance of independent organizations around the world dedicated to accelerating the development of a preventive HIV vaccine. The Enterprise, comprised of top research, funding, advocacy and other stakeholder organizations, develops and drives implementation of the Scientific Strategic Plan for HIV vaccine development. In support of this Plan, Enterprise stakeholders are setting shared research agendas, creating new structures for information sharing, developing new tools to harmonize global research efforts, and bringing new organizations, expertise and money to the challenge. The Enterprise organizes the world's leading HIV vaccine research conference, AIDS Vaccine, annually. For more information, please visit www.hivvaccineenterprise.org.

The Center for AIDS Research at Emory University (CFAR) is one of 20 National Institutes of Health funded centers across the United States. The CFAR at Emory facilitates clinical, prevention, vaccine, and basic science HIV/AIDS research for more than 120 investigators at Emory and its Atlanta partner institutions. The Emory Vaccine Center (EVC) supports strong pre-clinical and clinical HIV vaccine research programs. Atlanta's Emory University, ranked as one of the country's top national universities, encompasses nine undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools with a total enrollment of 12,755 students. Emory's Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center is an academic health science and service center focused on missions of teaching, research, health care, and public service. Its components are Emory University School of Medicine, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, and Rollins School of Public Health; Yerkes Nationa
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