Sentences with phrase «on microbicides»
«I don't think anyone suspected that the tenofovir gel would not work,» says immunologist John Moore, who works on microbicides at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City.
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Among other grants, he has participated to several EC - FP6 funded grants (AVIP, NEAT, Europrise) and coordinated the «GISHEAL» program on the genetics and immunology of HIV long term nonprogressors; he has also participated to the FP7 - funded project «AIM - HIV» on microbicide discovery.
Not exact matches
That $ 90 million study, financed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), startled many in the field who, based on other failures of nonspecific microbicides, had predicted the product would do nothing.
These include voluntary male circumcision — now recommended by the World Health Organization and Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS as a preventive strategy — as well as vaginal microbicides and oral pre-exposure prophylaxis, all of which confer only partial protection against HIV.
After the microbicide showed promise in test - tube experiments, Haase's team moved on to rhesus macaques.
Today, most microbicides in human studies or on the drawing board contain anti-HIV drugs that cripple a critical viral enzyme.
HIVR4P supports cross-fertilization among research on HIV vaccines, microbicides, PrEP, treatment as prevention, and other biomedical prevention approaches, while also providing a venue to discuss the research findings, questions, and priorities specific to each.
Community members and leading and upcoming Ugandan scientists engaged in dialogue on issues surrounding HIV vaccines, microbicides and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).
We tried to address some of these issues while working on an RNAi - based microbicide to prevent sexual transmission of viral infection (and ultimately HIV) in mice.
Researchers from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln have generated an «on - off switch» into a weakened form of HIV, potentially creating a new vaccine for Comprehensive exploration of research into HIV prevention, including microbicides, PrEP, PEP, condoms, circumcision and HIV treatment as prevention.
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