#  2025 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize Symposium 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 30, 2025** 

 02:00PM - 05:30PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 77 Ave. Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115**  



 

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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)



 

 



 

 

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