The 17th International Workshop on HIV and Aging, held October 15-16 in Philadelphia, featured talks by Weill Cornell faculty, along with a poster presentation.
Dr. Teresa Evering gave an invited presentation on “From Skin to Synapse: Modeling Neuronal Dysfunction in People Aging with HIV” as part of an NIH/OAR-supported Symposium. She discussed her neuroHIV research findings using a novel platform - skin fibroblasts that had been directly reprogrammed into neurons.
Dr. Carrie Johnston spoke on “Multi-Omic Biomarkers Are Associated with Cognitive Change in People with HIV during a session on Impact of Trauma on Cognition and Mental Health. The abstract can be found 
here.
Ruchama Vincent, an undergraduate at Tufts University who worked with Dr. Johnston as part of the Weill Cornell Medicine Summer Research Fellowship (WCMSRF), presented a poster, “Elevated insulin resistance and sex-based differences in body composition in older PWH”. The abstract for this poster can be found here.
