The Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that Dr. James W. Curran will receive the Gertrude Elion Distinguished Lecturer Award in recognition of his extraordinary contributions towards HIV treatment and elimination.

In 1981, Jim Curran led the CDC task force charged with determining what was behind the first cases of what we now know as AIDS. A pioneer in HIV/AIDS prevention, Dr. Curran led the nation's efforts on the battle against HIV/AIDS for a 15 year period while at the CDC.

Dr. Curran moved from the CDC to EmoryRollins School of Public Health as Dean and Professor of Epidemiology. He was the first Co-Director of the Emory Center for AIDS Research and holds faculty appointments in the Emory School of Medicine and the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing.