Medical Student Research Symposium

We are pleased to have you join us for the 15th annual Medical Student Research Symposium of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. As clinicians in training, we are fortunate to work among faculty who conduct a broad range of investigation that yields advances in the knowledge of human health. For the past fourteen years, we have been privileged to have an event that presents the extensive endeavors that students take to advance this mission at the school.

The mission of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is to educate medical students, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows in accordance with the highest professional standards; to prepare clinicians to practice patient-centered medicine of the highest standard; and to identify and answer fundamental questions in the mechanisms, prevention and treatment of disease, in health care delivery and in the basic sciences.

The Medical Student Research Symposium is a forum for medical students at Johns Hopkins to present their own research to the greater Hopkins community. It is an opportunity for students to participate in the exchange of intellectual ideas in a professional format and meet faculty who relish the pursuit of better science and more effective medicine. Our mission is for the Medical Student Research Symposium to foster the development of young researchers who will aid in the advancement of scientific medicine for years to come.

Robert Siliciano, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Medicine in the Infectious Diseases Department, member of the National Academy of Sciences, and Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In his research, he studies HIV-1 infection, latency, and antiretroviral therapy (ART). His lab was the first to demonstrate the significant barrier that latent HIV-1 infection in CD4+ T cells presented to the cure of HIV-1. His lab also studies the immunology of HIV, with particular interest towards patients who can control HIV-1 without ART.