Fred Schaich of IFARA spoke with Sharon Lewin, FRACP, Ph.D., FAAHMS, director of the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne, about research on a cure for HIV. “A cure means different things to different people,” Lewin said, although the long-term aspirational goal is the elimination of HIV. In 1996,…
Despite billions of dollars spent and some of the world’s best brains on the case, there is still no vaccine to protect against HIV. But, as Christopher Kelly reports, recent discoveries have recharged researchers’ efforts. HIV was isolated and identified in 1985. At the time, US health officials voiced confidence that a vaccine would be…
An Australian research team has found that disulfiram, a long-established and safe drug used primarily as a treatment for alcohol dependency (and well-known under its brand name Antabuse) can ‘wake up’ quiescent HIV-infected ‘reservoir’ cells and thus used as the first stage of a hypothetical cure for HIV. The researchers found that doses of disulfiram…
Australian researchers have joined a worldwide $30-million initiative to accelerate the search for an effective HIV vaccine. Funded by the European Commission, the European AIDS Vaccine Initiative brings together scientific collaborators from across Europe, Australia, Canada and the US. Professors David Cooper, Anthony Kelleher and Miles Davenport from the Kirby Institute in Sydney alongside Professors Damian Purcell…
A Royal Perth Hospital immunologist investigating the possibility of using an antibody to trigger natural immune responses to fight HIV is one of 131 researchers benefitting from about $6 million of State Government funding. Announcing round 18 of the annual Medical and Health Research Infrastructure Fund (MHRIF) grants, Health Minister Dr Kim Hames said Professor…
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