Biography
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Dr. Joseph Thomas August, University Distinguished Service Professor of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences and Oncology, joined the Hopkins faculty in 1976 as Director of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. A graduate of Stanford University School of Medicine, he previously served as Chairman, Department of Molecular Biology and Director, Division of Biology, The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1972-1976.
From 2001 to 2004, he was interim director of the division of biomedical sciences at Johns Hopkins Singapore, and is currently adjunct professor of medicine at the National University of Singapore. Dr. August’s current research centers on the development of novel virus and cancer vaccines and has more than 200 publications and 40 years of experience in genetic immunotherapy of infectious diseases and cancer, development of DNA vaccine; and has over the past 8 years worked closely with groups in Singapore to integrate bioinformatics technologies in these and other research areas.
Lecture Details
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We are honored to host Dr. August for the AMBIS Annual Lecture Series. The details of the lecture are as follows:
Date: 21 Feb Monday
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Eusoff Hall Seminar Room
Title: Genetic immunotherapy of infectious diseases and cancer
Abstract: Vaccines have been one of the most effective instruments for the prevention of disease in the history of medicine. Nevertheless, despite this record of success, there are many remaining challenges in the design and application of vaccines effective against many current major pathogens, including cancer, influenza, HIV-1, malaria, and dengue virus. The scope of this seminar is to present the rationale for the application of genetic vaccines and the continuing critical problems of genetic vaccine research, and the developments of our laboratory at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with applications of new technologies to several
pathogens, including dengue virus, West Nile virus, yellow fever virus, hepatitis A virus, influenza A virus and human immunodeficiency virus-1. The impact of bioinformatics and medical informatics on this project will be discussed.
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