Seattle, one of the world leaders in hepatitis C research and treatment, will be hosting HCV2011, the 18th International Symposium on Hepatitis C and Related Viruses at the Seattle Sheraton. This conference is being held in Seattle for the first time and will attract around 800 people worldwide, including Michael Houghton from the University of Alberta who discovered Hepatitis C in 1989,  Steve Wiersma (WHO), Michael Gale (UW), Barbara Rehermann (NIH), Ray Chung (Harvard), Andrea Cox (Johns Hopkins), Hugo Rosen (University of Colorado), and Charlie Rice (Rockefeller University).