The January meeting of the Roundtable is at noon, Thursday, January 17th, at the Capital City Club downtown.
We are pleased to have as speaker Dr. Dmitry Shayakhmetov, Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine and David C. Lowance Chair in Human Immunology at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Shayakhmetov and Roundtable member Henry Wyche are co-founders of AdCure Biotechnologies, LLC.
The focus of Dr. Shayakhmetov’s research is on improving our understanding of how the human immune system initiates and exacerbates inflammation in response to viral and bacterial pathogens. AdCure Bio is a viro-immuno-therapy company, developing potent and safe oncolytic viruses for therapy of solid cancer tumors.
Dr. Shayakhmetov obtained his BS degree in biochemistry and PhD degree in molecular biology and virology under the supervision of one of the leading virologists in Russia. He obtained his postdoctoral training in virology and immunology at the University of Washington in Seattle.