IPVS Webinar - HPV Latency: More Questions Than Answers

September 29, 2021 | 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

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Register to join Dr. Patti Gravitt, Deputy Director of the NCI Center for Global Health, and Dr. Bettie Steinberg, Professor at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, as they take an interdisciplinary look at the evidence to discuss the known and unknown about HPV latency, the importance of accelerating research efforts to address the remaining uncertainties, and the framing of research questions using novel study designs and interdisciplinary perspectives. This virtual event is hosted by the International Papillomavirus Society (IPVS) and will be moderated by Dr. Margaret Stanley, Professor at the University of Cambridge. 

The ability of papillomaviruses to establish infection at human epithelial sites that is largely undetectable by most routine molecular diagnostic tests is indisputable. However, there remains considerable disagreement about what this ‘test negative, infection positive’ state represents (i.e., latency or very low viral copy persistence), how common it is at the anogenital or oral/oropharyngeal sites in women and men, and what risk of HPV-associated cancers this state of infection confers to an individual across the lifespan.

To learn more, visit the International Papillomavirus Society event website.