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David Tanks

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Dec 12, 2025, 12:59:17 PM12/12/25

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Sounds like an interesting talk! And there are others possible to view.

David AD4TJ

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PSW offers free Zoom lectures on science issues. (Scroll all the way down.) I am a member. Apart from the December 19 presentation, though, is one on January 9^th features a talk on Nickola Tesla.

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PSW SCIENCE^®

Founded 1871

The 2,527^th Meeting of the Society

Friday, December 19, 2025 | 8 pm

Powell Auditorium at the Cosmos Club

Science. Seriously.

DINNER RESERVATION DEADLINE:

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14 at 10 PM

Pre-Lecture Reception 5:45 pm

Dinner 6:30 pm*

Lecture 8 pm

Speaker Reception with Refreshments after the Lecture

*It is expected that dinner attendees will also attend the lecture

ENTRANCE: The Usual Entrance to the Powell Auditorium at 2170 Florida Avenue May Be Closed Due to Construction.

We will update closer to the date of the lecture about using an alternative entrance.

PARKING: If you are only attending the lecture, you may not park at the Cosmos Club. If you are attending the dinner, you may park at the Cosmos Club if you have pre-paid parking with your dinner reservation form. Parking is $20.50 per vehicle. Other parking options are here.

As If the Way One Died Mattered

The Last Gift: Finding a Cure for HIV

Davey Smith

Assistant Vice Chancellor - Clinical and Translational Research

Professor - Department of Medicine

Co-Director - San Diego Center for AIDS Research

University of California - San Diego

Sponsored by PSW Science Member Marlene Bekey

In Memory of Ivan Bekey

About the PSW Lecture

Here’s the problem: if we only look at blood, we miss where HIV lives. We have to go deeper.

People on modern treatment for HIV can feel well, but small pockets of the virus still hide deep in the body. Regular autopsies happen too late to study these hiding places. An autopsy done within hours after death closes that gap and lets us see real tissues while they are still fresh. People join because they want their lives to help others, and the study is built with clear consent and community oversight.

In this talk, I will show how our Last Gift program follows people with HIV closely near the end of life and then studies many organs right after death. We find that the virus hides in different places for different people, including the gut, the lymph nodes, the brain and spinal cord, liver, kidneys, etc. We can also tell the difference between cells that hold working copies of the virus and cells that do not. Read More

About the Speaker

Davey M. Smith is Assistant Vice Chancellor of Clinical and Translational Research at the University of California – San Diego (UCSD), where he also is Chair of Faculty in the Department of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health and Professor of Medicine. He is also Co-Director of the San Diego Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and holds the Florence Seeley Riford Chair in AIDS Research. Read More