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Modeling virus infection and treatment (Libin Rong)
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Speaker: Libin Rong (Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Oakland University)

Time: 10:00 am, June 8

Place: Room 1501, East Guanghua Tower

During the past 15 years, mathematical models, combined with experimental data, have made significant contributions to our understanding of HIV and other virus infections, such as hepatitis C virus (HCV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), and influenza. There are still a lot of questions remaining unanswered. In this talk, I will discuss my recent work in modeling HIV/HCV infection and drug treatment. I will show how mathematical models can explain low-level HIV persistence in infected individuals despite apparently potent combination therapy (commonly known as the “cocktail therapy”) for many years. I will also explain why drug resistant virus appears so rapidly in HCV patients treated with a new drug. These results have significant implications for clinical practice.
