A staunch advocate for African immunology, he currently serves on the Junior Community Committee of the International Union of Immunological Societies.

Great.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for hosting me and for a really generous introduction.

So, as you mentioned, I'm currently studying CD8 positive T cell dysfunction in context of HIV infection.

But to start how I started from my journey from my bachelor's, I was trained as a medical laboratory technologist back in Ethiopia.

So when I was studying medical laboratory science, one of the subjects that we have to study was immunology.

Why are these T cells important in the context of HIV? And then you can tell us about your findings so far.