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Research News
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Forming HIV Reservoirs, Informing Cure Strategies
Researchers, led by amfAR grantee Dr. Edward Kankaka, gain new insight into the initial formation of HIV reservoirs, the main barrier to an HIV cure.
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amfAR at AIDS 2024: Presentations, Meetings, and Workshops
A full listing of amfAR-related presentations and sessions at AIDS 2024
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Timing Is Everything
Timing of ART initiation after infection determines vulnerability of the HIV reservoir, the main barrier to a cure
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Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Law Cannot Stand
amfAR criticizes Uganda Constitutional Court’s refusal to strike down its Anti-Homosexuality Act, citing HIV healthcare and human rights violations.
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Creating a Cost-Effective Cure
Researchers design a highly potent latency reversing agent that targets the HIV reservoir, the main barrier to a cure, and boosts immune responses.
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Rejuvenating the Field of AIDS Research
Three promising young HIV researchers—Drs. Gabriel Duette, Kalen Petersen, and Simone Richardson—have been awarded amfAR’s Mathilde Krim Fellowship in Biomedical Research.
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New Studies Advance HIV Cure Science
HIV cure researchers, including amfAR grantees, report findings on post-treatment control, HIV reservoirs, and early treatment in children at CROI
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A Person-Centered Cure
An amfAR-funded study examined the attitudes and needs of HIV cure trial participants—people living with HIV who go off antiretrovirals to test certain strategies.
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What’s the Role of Natural Killer Cells in Curing HIV?
Description: A study coauthored by amfAR grantee Dr. Timothy Schacker suggests a way to decrease HIV-producing cells in lymphatic tissue.
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Enhancing Innate Immunity Against HIV
Researchers find clues to HIV cure strategies in the immunity profile of elite controllers, people living with HIV who can control the virus without medications.
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Importance of the Brain as an HIV Reservoir
Researchers bring sharper focus to a not-very-accessible HIV cure target.
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COVID-19, Pregnancy, and Protection
Researchers discover immune mechanisms that protect fetuses of SARS-CoV-2-infected mothers from COVID-19’s ill effects.
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New Case of Post-Treatment Control
Researchers in the Netherlands report on a man who has been undetectable without being on antiretrovirals for almost two decades.
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Overcoming Toxicities Associated with Virus-Based Gene Therapy
Fine-tuning an HIV cure strategy, an amfAR researcher considers ways to deliver gene therapy with care.
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amfAR Grantee Dr. Drew Weissman Awarded Nobel Prize
2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Drs. Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó for pioneering mRNA research leading to COVID-19 vaccines.