Henle Award, Keynote, and Invited Speakers

Henle Award Speaker

- Paul Farrell
- Section of Virology, Imperial College London
  London, UK
- Paul Farrell obtained his PhD in Cambridge, working with Tim Hunt and Richard Jackson on control of protein synthesis. After his PhD, he was a Damon Runyon postdoctoral fellow at Yale with Peter Lengyel working on interferon mechanisms, and then with Dieter Söll on tRNA gene promoters. He subsequently returned to Cambridge, working in John Gurdon’s lab at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. During that time, he linked up with Fred Sanger’s group where Bart Barrell was starting to sequence the Epstein-Barr Virus genome. Since then, he has studied many aspects of EBV gene structure and gene expression. In 1986 he founded the London St Mary’s branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, which he directed until 2005. In 1995, he also created and led the Section of Virology in Imperial College London, where he is now Professor of Tumour Virology. He was elected to the UK Academy of Medical Sciences in 2003 and chaired the research grants committee for the UK charity Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research (Bloodwise) 2009-2016. His recent work has focussed on worldwide variation in the EBV genome sequence, aiming to understand natural variation of the virus and the potential relationship to diseases associated with EBV.

1) Hiroshi Kimura (Professor, Nagoya University, Japan)
Speciality: Chronic active EBV infection (CAEBV)
2) Mei-Ru Chen (Professor, National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Speciality: EBV lytic replication

1) Masashi Fukayama (Emeritus Professor, Tokyo University, Japan)
Speciality: EBV gastric cancer
2) Kwok-Wai Lo (Professor, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Speciality: Nasopharyngeal cancer