2025 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize Symposium
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2025 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize Symposium
Cracking the Capsid: Lenacapavir and the Next Chapter in HIV Treatment and Prevention
The Warren Alpert Foundation and Harvard Medical School invite you to our annual scientific symposium, recognizing three scientists whose discoveries led to lenacapavir — a groundbreaking medication that offers new hope for preventing and treating HIV and accelerating the end of the epidemic.
Opening Remarks
George Q. Daley, MD, PhD - Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University, Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine
Bruce Walker, MD - Director, Ragon Institute of Mass General Brigham, MIT, and Harvard
Award Lectures
Tomas Cihlar, PhD. - Senior Vice President of Research, Gilead Sciences
John Link, PhD - Vice President, Medicinal Chemistry, Gilead Sciences (Retd.) Scientific Advisor, Actio Biosciences SAB member, Terremoto Biosciences
Wesley Sundquist, PhD - Professor and Chair of Biochemistry, University of Utah
Invited Speakers
Linda-Gail Bekker, MD, PhD - Professor and Director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town and Chief Executive Officer of the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation, South Africa
Conversation with Bill Gates - Chair, Gates Foundation, and Founder, Breakthrough Energy and TerraPower, interviewed by Bruce Walker, MD (by video recording)