Hot Topic Talks

There will be many fascinating presentations at this conference, but here are a few you won’t want to miss! This partial list will be updated regularly.

Tarin Bigley

Washington University
USA

New findings on autoimmunity from studies of murine roseolovirus

Sven Borchmann, MD, PhD

University of Cologne
Germany

New evidence for HHV-6 in a subset of Hodgkin’s lymphoma

Erin Cumming, PhD

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
USA

iciHHV-6 B and increased risk of basal cell carcinoma

Kazuhiro Kondo, MD, PhD

Professor
Jikei University School of Medicine
Japan

HHV-6B SITH-1-Induced brain acetylcholine deficiency as a key driver of Long Covid and the impact of donepezil

Suzanne Lager, PhD

Uppsala University
Sweden

Fetal inheritance of chromosomally integrated HHV-6 and pre-eclampsia

Caleb Lareau

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
USA

HHV-6 reactivation in CAR-T cells and increased cancer risk for iciHHV6-B

Hiroki Miura, MD

Fujita Health University
Japan

Induced pluripotent stem cells and iciHHV-6 replication

Julien Muffat, PhD

Hospital for Sick Children,
University of Toronto
Canada

Using engineered 3D cultures to study the neurological impact of HHV-6& 7 infection

Roberta Rizzo, PhD

Professor, Microbiology
University of Ferrara
Italy

The role of HHV-6 in pregnancy: implications for maternal and fetal health

Stacey Piotrowsky, DVM, PhD

Emory University & NINDS/NIH
USA

Whole genome sequences reveal a higher prevalence of HHV-6 in synucleinopathies

Nicholas Parrish, MD, PhD

Duke University
USA

iciHHV-6B and autoimmunity

Bhupesh Prusty, PhD

Rīga Stradiņš University
Latvia

Pathogenesis in ME/CFS: modeling HHV-6A and HHV-6B in single cells to 3D tissue organoids

Peter Sundström

Umeå University
Sweden

HHV-6A & axonal injury before the onset of MS