Harold McIntyre and Alecia Tramel-McIntyre
Alecia Tramel-McIntyre and Harold McIntyre are known in the community as Mr. and Mrs. HIV. The couple shares how they found each other after diagnosis and use their love story to raise awareness.
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Research in Action: Arts build HOPE and a bridge between science and public
Research in Action: Arts build HOPE and a bridge between science and public
Published in The Chronicle Journal Thursday, January 31, 2023.
BY JULIO HELENO GOMES
A world-wide effort to find a lasting cure for one of the biggest epidemics of the modern age is using art to help researchers understand how their work is being perceived and to engage the public in reaching their goal. One of the community engagement leaders is an award-winning Lakehead University professor who hopes such artworks will be on display in Thunder Bay, for Lakehead’s Research and Innovation Week, to shed light on research into HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus.
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Go Behind-The-Scenes: World AIDS Day 2022
Get a behind-the-scenes glance at what researchers are working on to uncover a cure for HIV. Raif Derrazi, HOPE’s CAB member, will catch up with Melanie Ott as she tours a biosafety lab at Gladstone Institutes and answers your questions about her HIV research.
This Instagram Live event will include a conversation with Patricia Defechereux. She will walk through an art exhibit presented as part of the Community Arts Integrated Research (CAIR) program that uses the creation of art as a vehicle for investigating and developing HIV cure education.
Message from a 52-year-old Australian mother with HIV living in Sydney recently diagnosed in October:
“If you haven’t watched/listened to Raif’s interview (on his IG) at Gladstone Institute on the research being done to find a cure for HIV, please watch it. It was so informative and their knowledge is mind-blowing. Seeing how passionate and dedicated the scientists are, who are heading up this research, has given me so much hope, that they will find a cure. Not only that, but knowing that these people, who have no idea who we are, are fighting for us, filled me with hope and gratitude. Thank you Gladstone Institute and thank you @RaifDerrazi, I feel so lucky to have found you”
The Search for a Cure
Research has turned HIV from a fatal infection into a chronic illness. Now, scientists want to liberate those living with the virus by subduing it for good.
HOPE’s Investigator, Cedric Feschotte is featured in Science Magazine “Ancient virus may be protecting the human placenta”
HOPE’s Investigator, Cedric Feschotte, is helping to “scan the human genome for ERV sequences they suspected might encode proteins- Ancient virus may be protecting the human placenta”
Dr. Pauline Sameshima Receives Teaching Innovation Award
Dr. Pauline Sameshima Receives Teaching Innovation Award
“Dr. Pauline Sameshima (Professor and Canada Research Chair in Arts Integrated Studies) has received a 2022 Teaching Innovation Award from Lakehead University’s Senate Teaching and Learning Committee.
The Committee highlighted Pauline’s implementation of the “the Slides Strategy,” a teaching technique that “stimulates high levels of engagement in students, allowing them to understand each other’s perspectives well and affording much more creativity and the ability to participate in reading assignments to a greater depth than existing alternatives.”
The Teaching Innovation Award recognizes the development and/or implementation of innovative pedagogical practices and technologies.
For an explanation of “the Slides Strategy,” please see the publication by Pauline Sameshima and Tashya Orasi, “What’s better than the asynchronous discussion post?”
Congratulations, Pauline!”
In Conversations with Adam Castillejo, the London Patient
Adam is one of a very small group of individuals who have been “cured” of HIV following stem cell transplantation and has become a global advocate for HIV Cure research.
The HOPE Collaboratory had the honor of hosting Adam Castillejo, the London Patient for a panel to hear about his experience through this unique and challenging process. Joined by clinicians, scientists, and community members from the Gladstone Institutes, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, and several HOPE institutions discussed the impact and hurdles associated with developing an HIV Cure.
Adam Castillejo, the London Patient
Meet the 2nd Person Cured of HIV, aka the “London Patient”
Introducing the Panelists:
Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH, HOPE SAB Member, Director of CFAR, Medical Director of the Ward 86 HIV clinic
Kim Koester, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Researcher at CAPS
Luis Gutierrez-Mock, MA, MPH. HOPE CAB Member, Pandemic Response Specialist
Lishomwa Ndhlovu, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Immunology in Medicine, Infectious Diseases
Photo credits to Michael Short/Gladstone Institutes
HOPE’s CAB member, Luis Gutierrez-Mock, was presented with the UCSF Chancellor’s Award for LGBTQ Leadership!
Congratulations to HOPE’s CAB member, Luis Gutierrez-Mock, for being presented with the UCSF Chancellor’s Award for LGBTQ Leadership!
“Diversity, equity, and inclusion are inextricably linked to UCSF’s mission of education, research and patient care, and UCSF faculty, staff, students, and trainees are actively engaged in equity and inclusion in multiple local, regional and global settings. Each year this award recognizes and honors three individuals at UCSF—one faculty, one staff, one student/resident/postdoctoral scholar—who have demonstrated outstanding commitment and service to the ideals of diversity, equity, and inclusion beyond the scope of their job, area of research, or training. This year those whose contributions are aligned with our Anti-racism Initiative are encouraged to be nominated.”
Glazer and Omer Are New Members of National Academy of Medicine
“Peter M. Glazer, MD, PhD, Robert E. Hunter Professor and chair, department of therapeutic radiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn. For discovering that tumor hypoxia causes genetic instability and that IDH1 mutations suppress DNA repair in cancers, conferring vulnerability to radiation and PARP inhibitors. He developed novel DNA repair inhibitors for cancer therapy and triplex-forming oligonucleotides for gene editing. His work led to multiple new clinical trials for cancer.”
In collaboration with HOPE, Dr. Glazer works with triplex-forming oligonucleotides targeting the latent HIV provirus.
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Pauline Sameshima has been awarded the Ontario Art Education Association’s Post Secondary Teacher of the Year 2022!
The Ontario Art Education Association (OAEA) recognizes excellence in Visual and Media Arts education in this province. They maintain public awareness about the importance of exemplary art education. They honour visual art schools and community educators who exemplify standards of quality in art education, in Ontario. OAEA honours these educators’ achievements during our annual awards night.
Pauline Sameshima has been awarded the Ontario Art Education Association’s Post Secondary Teacher of the Year 2022! This award is given to an professor that shows excellence in visual arts education in a post-secondary setting and leadership in and/or contributions to art education in the candidate’s institution, organization, or community. Excellence in art education refers to an educator or teacher who promotes a culture supportive of visual art education. Join us in the celebration on Tuesday Nov 8th (more details to come).