Students, fellows, faculty and guests took part in a mini-symposium that featured two panels discussions, a scientific poster session and networking reception as part of the medical school’s World AIDS Day commemoration.

Although the mechanisms by which interferons, or signaling proteins, generate anti-cancer responses remain to be defined, Leonidas Platanias, MD, PhD, has revealed the essential role that certain enzymes play.

Kathryn Radigan, MD, has received an Early Career Investigator Award from the American Thoracic Society Foundation to study the link between leptin, a hormone that regulates appetite and obesity, and an increased susceptibility to influenza A-induced lung injury.