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AIDS Vaccine Candidate Successfully ‘Primes’ Immune System in Animal Models
June 18, 2015
New research led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and The Rockefeller University shows that an experimental vaccine candidate can stimulate the immune system to block HIV infection in mice.
The new candidate has the potential to inform immunization strategies against AIDS for humans. The effort to develop a vaccine against HIV has so far struggled to elicit antibodies that can effectively fight off different strains of the fast and extensively mutating virus. The new results were published June 18 in concurrent studies in Cell and Science.
“The results are pretty spectacular,” said Dennis Burton, chair of the TSRI Department of Immunology and Microbial Science and scientific director of the IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Consortium (NAC) and National Institutes of Health Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology and Immunogen Discovery at TSRI…