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FAU Presents Robert Redfield to Speak on HIV Therapy

BOCA RATON, FL (February 3, 2005) - Florida Atlantic University will present Dr. Robert Redfield to speak on the topic of "New Strategies in Antiretroviral Therapy" as part of FAU's Charles E. Schmidt's College of Science Frontiers in Science lecture series. The lecture will begin on Thursday, February 17 at 4 p.m. at FAU's Boca Raton campus, Charles E. Schmidt Biomedical Center, Room 126, 777 Glades Rd.

This lecture will focus on immunotherapeutic strategies, for the treatment of chronic viral diseases. Redfield will focus on the application of this approach to make therapeutic treatment options globally available to millions of HIV-infected people.

Redfield has broke new ground in clinical human viral research with remarkable accomplishments in the field area of HIV immunoregulation, immunotherapy and vaccine development. Amongst his many accomplishments, he was the first to demonstrate heterosexual transmission of HIV-1 and then help develop a conceptual framework for clinically staging the continuum of HIV infection now used throughout the world.

Redfield is a professor of medicine in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He is the director of clinical care and research in the Division of Infectious Diseases and director of the clinical HIV program. Redfield is also associate director, cofounder and director of clinical care and research at the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute.

Redfield received his M.D. from Georgetown School of Medicine. His postgraduate medical training was completed at Maryland's Walter Reed Army Medical Center where he held rank of colonel, as well as a fellow in tropical medicine. Redfield has received an honorary degree from New York Medical College, the Lifetime Science Award from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Immunology and Aging from Ortho Diagnostic Systems Inc., the Surgeon General's Physician Recognition Award and multiple medals in virology from the U.S. Army.

The Frontiers of Science Lecture Series, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science with support from FAU's Lifelong Learning Society Endowed Professorship. For more information on the series, call 561-297-2954.

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