Data from a study done 20 years ago on maternal - infant HIV transmission give clues that could lead to better
HIV vaccine design
A critical implication of this work for the field of
HIV vaccine design is the observation that the most potent and broad individual anti-HIV VHH, J3, was elicited in response to the gp140 immunogens used.
«Uncovering the process by which neutralizing antibodies develop is critical to
HIV vaccine design,» said Elise Landais, Senior Research Scientist with IAVI and lead author of the study.
«New findings to help HIV scientists establish «template» for potent antibodies: Natural - infection studies in Africa and India continue to inform
HIV vaccine design.»
«Research focused on basic B cell biology is the foundation for the development of
an HIV vaccine designed to drive the B cell arm of the immune response.»
Not exact matches
These findings provide insights for the
design of
vaccines that can «kick - start» and then shape the maturation of broadly neutralizing antibodies in
HIV uninfected individuals, to provide protection from
HIV exposure.
«New study has important implications for the
design of a protective
HIV vaccine.»
The study has important implications for the
design of a protective
HIV vaccine.
Using the findings from this study, the team has
designed vaccine immunogens to selectively trigger the cooperating antibody - producing B cells to cooperate to make broadly neutralizing antibodies in a manner that mimics broadly neutralizing antibody development in natural
HIV infection.
At the start, researchers pinned their hopes on
vaccines designed to trigger production of antibodies against
HIV's surface protein.
«We learned in this study that grabbing hold of these glycans can be a very important early step in an effective immune response to
HIV, and with this knowledge, we believe we can
design better candidate
vaccines,» said principal investigator Dennis R. Burton, professor of immunology and microbiology at TSRI.
Defining how to safely replicate these attributes in
HIV - uninfected
vaccine recipients may lead to better
designed experimental
vaccines to protect against
HIV.
This approach represents a departure from traditional
vaccine designs, which have been developed and tested against
HIV in vulnerable populations since the mid-1980s without success.
«Results from a former AIDS
vaccine study have shown that in a worst case scenario, immunization against
HIV could enhance infection,» says Christiane Stahl - Hennig, who
designed the project in cooperation with the former DPZ employee Sieghart Sopper.
For 30 years, researchers have struggled to determine which immune responses best foil
HIV, information that has guided the
design of AIDS
vaccines and other prevention approaches.
Researchers at the University of Maryland and Duke University have
designed a novel protein - sugar
vaccine candidate that, in an animal model, stimulated an immune response against sugars that form a protective shield around
HIV.
Wang and collaborators
designed a
vaccine candidate using an
HIV protein fragment linked to a sugar group.
This kind of research — figuring out which of the many
HIV strains are affecting local people and how they are transmitted — is essential for
designing an effective
vaccine.
We believe that
HIV controllers can provide key insights for
vaccine design.
HIV vaccines are
designed to evoke antibody responses.
Dr. Schief's work focuses on computation - guided and structure - based
design of immunogens and immunization regimens, with the goal of inducing broadly neutralizing antibodies against
HIV and other pathogens that have frustrated traditional
vaccine design strategies.
While studying a group of women at risk of
HIV in Mombasa, Kenya, Dr. Julie Overbaugh and colleagues found a potential vulnerability in the AIDS virus that could lead to clues for
designing an effective
vaccine.
Today, about 70 percent of the research under way in Dr. Steinman's laboratory at Rockefeller focuses on
designing a
vaccine against
HIV.
These results may provide new ways for
vaccine researchers to target
HIV and may influence the
design of future
HIV vaccines.
Dr. Leo Stamatatos, an immunologist in Fred Hutch's
Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, has received funding from the National Institutes of Health to begin manufacturing an HIV vaccine candidate designed to stimulate the production of broadly neutralizing antibodies and to test the experimental vaccine in human clinical
Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, has received funding from the National Institutes of Health to begin manufacturing an
HIV vaccine candidate designed to stimulate the production of broadly neutralizing antibodies and to test the experimental vaccine in human clinical
vaccine candidate
designed to stimulate the production of broadly neutralizing antibodies and to test the experimental
vaccine in human clinical
vaccine in human clinical trials.
This approach will also elucidate mechanisms of anti-body mediated protection from infection by
HIV - that are highly likely to inform
vaccine design.
In Toronto, Pai applies crystallography to gain a more complete understanding of an
HIV neutralizing antibody that may help in the
design of an
HIV vaccine.
Before joining IDRI, Tracey worked as a Protocol Development Manager with the
HIV Vaccine Trials Network at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center where she led multi-disciplinary teams in the
design and implementation of clinical trials evaluating candidate
HIV and tuberculosis
vaccines.
Using enhanced DNA technology, the lab has
designed DNA
vaccines that drive immune responses in prophylactic or therapeutic settings against Human Immunodeficiency Virus (
HIV), Dengue (DV), Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus, and Zika Virus (ZV).
Hundreds of
HIV vaccine scientists attending the 2011 Aids Vaccine conference in Bangkok, Thailand have said the stage is now set to design a safe and effective v
vaccine scientists attending the 2011 Aids
Vaccine conference in Bangkok, Thailand have said the stage is now set to design a safe and effective v
Vaccine conference in Bangkok, Thailand have said the stage is now set to
design a safe and effective
vaccinevaccine.
The findings were published In the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and concluded that
vaccines designed to induce higher levels of V1V2 antibodies and lower Env - specifc IgA antibodies could result in improved efficacy against
HIV - 1 infection.
Researchers are making progress in developing
vaccine immunogens
designed to induce broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) against
HIV.
The
vaccine,
designed for testing in Thailand where clade B and recombinant E / A
HIV predominates, was found 31 % effective in preventing
HIV infection among Thai volunteers.