Report from the First EPIICAL (Early-treated Perinatally HIV-infected Individuals: Improving Children's Actual Life with Novel Immunotherapeutic Strategies) General Assembly meeting, 9–11 November 2017, Rome, Italy

• P. Zangari,
• P. Palma,
• N. Cotugno,
• P. Rojo,
• A. Tagarro,
• I. Pepponi,
• A. De Rossi,
• L. Kuhn,
• S. Pahwa,
• M. Cameron,
• E. Nastouli,
• S. Watters,
• A.G. Marceline,
• L.E. McCoy,
• D. Persaud,
• A. Violari,
• M. Chan,
• A.G. Babiker,
• C. Foster,
• J. Ananworanich,
• C. Giaquinto,
• P. Rossi

Affiliations

P. Zangari

Academic Department of Pediatrics (DPUO), Research Unit in Congenital and Perinatal Infection, Immune and Infectious Diseases Division, Children's Hospital Bambino Gesù (OPBG), Rome, Italy

P. Palma

Academic Department of Pediatrics (DPUO), Research Unit in Congenital and Perinatal Infection, Immune and Infectious Diseases Division, Children's Hospital Bambino Gesù (OPBG), Rome, Italy; Corresponding author: Paolo Palma, Academic Department of Pediatrics (DPUO), Research Unit in Congenital and Perinatal Infection, Immune and Infectious Diseases Division, Children's Hospital Bambino Gesù, Piazza San’Onofrio,4, Rome, Italy

N. Cotugno

Academic Department of Pediatrics (DPUO), Research Unit in Congenital and Perinatal Infection, Immune and Infectious Diseases Division, Children's Hospital Bambino Gesù (OPBG), Rome, Italy

P. Rojo

Department of Pediatrics, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain

A. Tagarro

Department of Pediatrics, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain

I. Pepponi

Academic Department of Pediatrics (DPUO), Research Unit in Congenital and Perinatal Infection, Immune and Infectious Diseases Division, Children's Hospital Bambino Gesù (OPBG), Rome, Italy

A. De Rossi

Section of Oncology and Immunology, Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology-DiSCOG, University of Padova, and Istituto Oncologico Veneto, Padova, Italy

L. Kuhn

Gertrude H Sergievsky Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons and Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

S. Pahwa

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Miami Center for AIDS Research, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

M. Cameron

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

E. Nastouli

Department of Virology, University College London Hospitals, London, UK

S. Watters

Infection, Inflammation and Rheumatology Section, University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK

A.G. Marceline

Sorbonne University, UPMC University of Paris 6, Service de Virologie, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France

L.E. McCoy

Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, UK

D. Persaud

Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MA, USA

A. Violari

Perinatal Health Research Unit, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

M. Chan

MRC Clinical Trials Unit, University College London, UK

A.G. Babiker

MRC Clinical Trials Unit, University College London, UK

C. Foster

Imperial College Healthcare National Health Service Trust, London, UK

J. Ananworanich

Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, MA, USA

C. Giaquinto

Department of Women's and Child's Health, Paediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, University of Padova and PENTA Foundation, Padova, Italy

P. Rossi

Academic Department of Pediatrics (DPUO), Research Unit in Congenital and Perinatal Infection, Immune and Infectious Diseases Division, Children's Hospital Bambino Gesù (OPBG), Rome, Italy