Research has turned HIV from a fatal infection into a chronic illness. Now, scientists want to liberate those living with the virus by subduing it for good.
News Category: HOPE COLLABORATIVE IN THE NEWS
HOPE’s Investigator, Cedric Feschotte is featured in Science Magazine “Ancient virus may be protecting the human placenta”
HOPE’s Investigator, Cedric Feschotte, is helping to “scan the human genome for ERV sequences they suspected might encode proteins- Ancient virus may be protecting the human placenta”
“We still have no HIV cure. But we have a better strategy for finding one”
“Professor Lishomwa Ndhlovu of Weill Cornell Medical School in New York is a Principal Investigator in a global research consortium called HOPE which stands for HIV Obstruction by Programmed Epigenetics. The type of obstruction that tat inhibition may induce is an example of epigenetics.”
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HOPE CAB Member Alecia Tramel-McIntyre Featured in HHS campaign ‘I am a Work of ART’
“I am a Work of ART” is a community-informed national campaign designed to encourage people with HIV who are not in care for HIV to seek care, stay in care, and achieve viral suppression by taking antiretroviral therapy (ART). People with HIV who take HIV medicine (called antiretroviral therapy) as prescribed and get and keep an undetectable viral load can live long and healthy lives and will not transmit HIV to their HIV-negative partners through sex.
HOPE Community Advisory Board member Raif Derrazi honored at the 33rd GLAAD Awards
Los Angeles, CA – NBC’s Joe Fryer wins GLAAD Media Award for TODAY report on HIV/AIDS epidemic. In June 2021, Fryer profiled four men living with HIV in tandem with the 40th anniversary of AIDS.
MHRP a Partner in Two NIH-funded HIV Cure Collaboratories
Bethesda, MD – MHRP is part of two multi-institution research teams, or “Collaboratories”, that were awarded funds from NIH to develop an integrated approach to finding an HIV cure. These research projects bring together some of the leading researchers in the cure field and will help advance strategies to induce HIV remission.
Pesquisa busca vacina contra HIV com tecnologia similar à da Covid
USP integra consórcio internacional que pesquisa novas soluções para tratamento
Scripps Research scientist on front lines of finding HIV cure
JUPITER, Fla. — A local scientist at Scripps Research in Jupiter is on the frontlines of finding a cure for HIV. Susana Valente, an associate professor in the Department of Immunology and Microbiology, is part of a group of researchers from around the world working on a new strategy to find a cure.