The capacity to further understand both mechanisms of
HIV vaccine protection and potential studies to «cure» or eradicate HIV are strengthened by complementary nonhuman primate studies conducted in collaboration between the AFRIMS Department of Retrovirology and the AFRIMS Department of Veterinary Medicine.
Not exact matches
Future
HIV vaccine research should consider the balance between responses that favor
protection and those that lead to susceptibility to infection.
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.
Vaccine Protection of Chimpanzees Against Challenge with
HIV -1-Infected Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells
Vaccine - mediated
protection of nonhuman primates against low doses of cell - free
HIV - 1,
HIV - 2, or simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) has been demonstrated.
Thus, in principle, a successful
vaccine has to stimulate the first B cells in this lineage and then coax them along a fairly narrow evolutionary path until they have changed enough to provide effective
protection against
HIV.
Recent research has yielded new information about immune responses associated with — and potentially responsible for —
protection from
HIV infection, providing leads for new strategies to develop an
HIV vaccine.
In the 30 years since scientists identified
HIV as the cause of AIDS, the virus has proved unbeatable — hiding in the very immune cells that would kill it; reflexively and rapidly mutating; mysteriously persisting in the gut, kidneys, liver, and brain; subverting every
vaccine (the best one so far has given only 30 percent
protection); and roaring back to life almost the moment drugs are stopped.
That's the question posed by researchers in the journal BMC Immunology, who think that the
vaccine might have offered partial
protection against
HIV.
In a previously published paper, Barouch and colleagues, including Colonel Nelson L. Michael, MD, PhD, director of the Military
HIV Research Program at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) and Stephen Thomas, MD, Upstate Medical University, State University of New York, demonstrated that three different
vaccine candidates provided robust
protection against Zika virus in both mice and rhesus monkeys.
A new study led by scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) shows that an
HIV - 1
vaccine regimen, involving a viral vector boosted with a purified envelope protein, provided complete
protection in half of the vaccinated non-human primates (NHPs) against a series of six repeated challenges with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a virus similar to
HIV that infects NHPs.
«We previously showed that adenovirus vector - based
HIV - 1
vaccine candidates offered partial protection against SIV when given alone,» said lead author Dan H. Barouch, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at BIDMC and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical
vaccine candidates offered partial
protection against SIV when given alone,» said lead author Dan H. Barouch, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Center for Virology and
Vaccine Research at BIDMC and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical
Vaccine Research at BIDMC and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Although an autologous tier 2 NAb response is not sufficient for
vaccine protection against
HIV - 1, it may be a necessary step in various strategies intended to induce bNAbs.
«Novel
HIV vaccine regimen provides robust
protection in non-human primates.»
«A
vaccine that can provide gloabal
protection from
HIV, along with other proven prevention techniques, is our best hope to control the
HIV pandemic.
So far, in the 30 years since the AIDS virus was identified, only one
vaccine candidate has shown any
protection at all, reducing the risk of contracting
HIV by 31 percent.
This approach will also elucidate mechanisms of anti-body mediated
protection from infection by
HIV - that are highly likely to inform
vaccine design.
This premature enthusiasm has more recently given way to caution as the technology has gradually been transferred to humans, with only limited short - term success.3 Finally, since
HIV usually enters the body through mucosal surfaces — the vagina and rectum — augmenting an immune response at these portals of entry by using what scientists call mucosal AIDS
vaccines might be an additional way to improve
protection against infection.
Several other planned
vaccine trials and research studies that will begin in the coming years will continue to work towards a
vaccine that delivers potent
protection against
HIV.
The U.S. Military
HIV Research Program is part of a public - private partnershipworking to improve the original RV144
vaccine and achieve higher levels of
protection.
The holy grail of AIDS prevention is a single - dose, safe, affordable, oral
vaccine that gives lifelong
protection against all subtypes of
HIV.
These problems become easier to understand when one considers how a
vaccine to prevent
HIV infection would have to work if it was to produce what experts call sterilizing immunity — that is, complete
protection from infection.