Effective vaccine against HIV/AIDS comes closer to reality

Source: Sify News

Washington: Scientists including one of an Indian origin may be on the verge of developing a vaccine that will provide long-lasting protection against repeated exposures to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

The team at Emory University and GeoVax Labs, Inc. has developed a vaccine that can protect nonhuman primates against multiple exposures to simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) given in three clusters over more than three years. SIV is the nonhuman primate version of HIV.

Harriet L. Robinson, PhD, chief scientific officer at GeoVax Labs, Inc., and former director of the division of microbiology and immunology at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, has been leading the research team with Rama Rao Amara, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and immunology, Yerkes National Primate Research Center and the Emory Vaccine Center.

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