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GENEART is Awarded two US Patents for Successfully Tested HIV Vaccines  -  20 Feb 2008
Earthtimes,Recently, the now patent-protected gene sequences have been tested as HIV vaccine candidates on 40 test persons by the EuroVacc Foundation in a phase I

Aerosol vaccines 'ready for clinical trials'  -  20 Feb 2008
SciDev.net,The researchers tested for safety and immune response using two vaccines, one based on an experimental HIV vaccine and the other a human papilloma virus

Podcast: As Heard From The Hill  -  20 Feb 2008
University Daily Kansan,KU helps search for an HIV vaccine: Heather Desaire, associate professor of chemistry at the University of Kansas, leads a team of KU researchers who are

Scientists No Closer To Developing HIV Vaccine Than 20 Years Ago ...  -  Feb 19, 2008
Kaiser network.org,Baltimore added that the HIV vaccine development community is "depressed" after recent failed attempts to develop a vaccine but said that will not halt HIV

HIV vaccine research hits impasse  -  Feb 14, 2008
BBC News,By Helen Briggs Scientists are no further forward in developing a vaccine against HIV after more than 20 years of research, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist

HIV vaccine may never be found  -  Feb 14, 2008
Times Online,...“We have been trying to make an HIV vaccine since the day HIV was discovered. In 1984, we were told that as the virus had been found, a vaccine should be

'No hope' for finding HIV vaccine  -  Feb 14, 2008
The Press AssociationScientists are facing defeat in the battle to conquer HIV and Aids by developing new vaccines, according to a Nobel Prize-winning scientist.

Nowhere near an HIV vaccine  -  Feb 17, 2008
Earth & Sky,More than 20 years have gone by since scientists first started to conduct research on HIV, and yet there is no vaccine against it.

Is HIV beating the scientists?  -  Feb 15, 2008
BBC News,By Martin Hutchinson After two decades of research into an HIV vaccine, there comes a bleak message from one of those leading the hunt.

HIV vaccine or cure may never be found  -  Feb 15, 2008
Gay NZ,...a Nobel laureate and President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science says the failure of every promising approach to an HIV vaccine

KU Researcher Says HIV Vaccine Will be Developed Through Worldwide ...  -  Feb 15, 2008
Kansas City infoZine,..."One thing that I really like about the HIV vaccine field is that it's a very collaborative environment," Desaire said. "I think the people who are

GeoVax Labs, Inc.'s Promising HIV/AIDS Vaccine Trial Data ...  -  Feb 7, 2008
CNNMoney.comThe HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) in Seattle is testing GeoVax's HIV/AIDS vaccines. HVTN funded and supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

No hope for HIV vaccine claims expert  -  Feb 15, 2008
PinkNews.co.uk,They jointly committed $110 million to the project, establishing a new research institute, the Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative.

Scientist: HIV Vaccine At Square One  -  Feb 15, 2008
Truthdig,By Barry Golson Nobel Prize-winning biologist David Baltimore has told his peers that researchers are no closer to discovering an HIV vaccine after decades

A week's worth of science news  -  Feb 17, 2008
Toronto Star,Nobel laureate and retiring AAAS president David Baltimore sighed when asked about the prospects for an HIV vaccine. He recalled the heady optimism in the

Experimental HIV vaccine gets a boost from ’70s-era discovery  -  Feb 12, 2008
The Rockefeller University Newswire,Although science is known for being a forward-looking field, researchers have found that they can often benefit from a glance over their shoulders.

Failure to find AIDS vaccine has researchers seeking new directions  -  Feb 5, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle,...federally funded clinical trial, called PAVE 100, of another HIV vaccine that has some similarities with the failed Merck candidate.

Chinese scientists working on new HIV vaccine  -  Jan 22, 2008
China Daily,HONG KONG: Scientists here and on the mainland are working on an AIDS vaccine to protect against three variants of HIV sweeping across southern and western

Cameroon: HIV Vaccine - Prof Anomah Ngu Explains His Approach  -  Jan 24, 2008
AllAfrica.com,During a public conference organised by the Cameroon Academy of Sciences on Tuesday 22 January, Professor Victor Anomah Ngu said his vaccine, VANHIVAX,

FOXSexpert: Five Sex Myths Revealed: Are You Misinformed?  -  Feb 18, 2008
FOXNewsWhile efforts to develop an HIV vaccine continue after two decades of efforts, scientists are no closer to getting a handle on controlling HIV.

NIAID Director Fauci To Convene Meeting Of HIV Vaccine Researchers ...  -  Feb 8, 2008
Medical News Today (press release),Anthony Fauci, director of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recently agreed to convene a summit of leaders in HIV vaccine

CROI: HIV Vaccine's Mysterious Failure Leads to Call for New ...  -  Feb 7, 2008
MedPage Today,7 -- There are still no answers to why a potential HIV vaccine failed so spectacularly last year in a large clinical trial, and researchers are continuing

NIH HIV vaccine program criticized  -  Feb 7, 2008
Bay Area Reporter,...by Bob Roehr The most persistent critic of the program the National Institutes of Health has laid out for developing an HIV vaccine was given the spotlight

Merck Aids Failure Signals Doom for African, US HIV Projects  -  Jan 30, 2008
BloombergAt the AIDS meeting next week, researchers are expected to give an in-depth analysis of data from the STEP study, which Merck and the HIV Vaccine Trials

Scientific Obstacles to Effective HIV Vaccine Frustrate Researchers  -  Feb 6, 2008
Medscape (subscription)February 6, 2008 (Boston) — The Jeremiah of HIV vaccine research was given a platform here yesterday at a plenary session of the 15th Conference on

Zeroing In on An HIV Vaccine  -  Feb 6, 2008
Harvard Crimson,By SUE LIN By identifying a novel potential target for treatment, Harvard scientists may have brought us one step closer to finding a vaccine for HIV.

Dr. Harriet Robinson Joins GeoVax Team as VP of R & D to ...  -  Feb 4, 2008
CNNMoney.comGeoVax HIV/AIDS vaccines are moving forward in human clinical trials administered by the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN-Division of the National

Researchers seek trial participants for experimental HIV vaccine ...  -  Feb 3, 2008
News-Medical.net,Those who have participated in a previous HIV vaccine trial are not eligible to participate, nor are those who have active syphilis, diabetes, some types of

CROI: AIDS vaccine: additional infection risk restricted to ...  -  Feb 5, 2008
Aidsmap,Once an HIV vaccine does become possible, pharma will jump on development and research.� He urged a return to basic discovery research, and instanced work

Lipid Sciences Announces Positive HIV Program Results  -  Jan 28, 2008
CNNMoney.comIf awarded, this grant will fund in vitro and pre-clinical studies to demonstrate 'proof of concept' for our preventive HIV vaccine.

HIV vaccine from tomatoes, a long awaited gift for millions  -  Jan 23, 2008
Checkbiotech.org (press release),Lim was successful in generating transgenic tomato plants expressing active Tat protein, with a potential to be used for development of a HIV vaccine.

Chinese scientists developing new HIV vaccine  -  Jan 25, 2008
Newindpress,NEW DELHI: Scientists are developing a new AIDS vaccine with the ability to ward off three variants of HIV sweeping across Hong Kong, Taiwan,

HIV vaccine to enter human trials  -  Jan 22, 2008
iAfrica.com,Researchers from the University of Cape Town have developed two test HIV vaccines — the first wholly South African-developed products to enter the human

The Success and Limits of Harm Reduction  -  Feb 14, 2008
Gay City NewsWhat we could not foresee at that time was just how elusive an HIV vaccine - and, for that matter, a vaccine for hepatitis C, a virus even more

We may never find vaccine for Aids, says Nobel winner  -  Feb 14, 2008
Hindu,By Alok Jha in Boston Guardian News Service: An Aids vaccine might never be found, claims one of the world's leading experts on the disease.

Emory Launches Joint Vaccine Center in India with International ...  -  Feb 1, 2008
WebWire (press release),...monkeys at Emory’s Yerkes National Primate Research Center, and work on an HIV vaccine targeting clade C (the primary HIV strain in India) is underway.

Program Assistant III (Travel Coordinator)  -  Feb 13, 2008
Seattle Post IntelligencerThe HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded international collaboration of scientists and educators searching for

Crucell Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2007 Results  -  Feb 12, 2008
FOXBusinessMerck Ad5 HIV vaccine: Discontinued Merck's HIV vaccine candidate was in phase I and II studies when discontinuation of the trials was announced on 21

Can AIDS Vaccines Put Participants At Risk?  -  Jan 27, 2008
BlackvoicesSo I asked my friend Steve Wakefield (pictured above), the HIV Vaccine Trials Network Legacy Project Director, who works to increase the participation of

Researchers Peel Back Another HIV Mystery  -  Feb 11, 2008
Wall Street JournalAfter last year’s disappointing news about the failure of Merck’s once-promising HIV vaccine, there’s progress on a new front. This past weekend brought

Researchers Develop Technique That Prevents HIV From Reproducing ...  -  Feb 11, 2008
Kaiser network.org,The technique "raises hope" within the HIV vaccine research community that if a preventive vaccine is not developed, the technique could be used to control

A threat once more  -  Feb 5, 2008
Malaysia Star,By DR MILTON LUM Tuberculosis, the most common infectious disease worldwide and the number one killer, is on the rise. TUBERCULOSIS (TB) is caused by the

Vaccines get a boost: Global market increases profitability of ...  -  Jan 27, 2008
American Medical News (subscription)Clinical trials for Merck's promising HIV vaccine were halted last fall when the vaccine was found to be ineffective. Also, a current shortage of

Arrowhead Research Appoints Mauro Ferrari To Board Of Advisors ...  -  Jan 28, 2008
RTT News,If awarded, this grant would fund in vitro and pre-clinical studies to demonstrate 'proof of concept' for the company's preventive HIV vaccine.

Natural Health  -  Feb 13, 2008
Nigerian Tribune,Also speaking at the roundtable, Dr. Morenike Ukpong, coordinator for the Nigerian HIV Vaccine and Microbicides Advocacy Group, said there is need for more

Talk Focuses on African Americans' Struggle with HIV/AIDS  -  Feb 4, 2008
Media Newswire (press release),This National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day event is sponsored by URMC’s HIV Vaccine Trials Unit, the School of Nursing, and the Center for Community Health.

HOPE in African HIV/AIDS fight  -  Jan 31, 2008
Press Media Wire (Press Release),Add to that a dearth of HIV drugs and the recent failure of a once-promising HIV vaccine. Walker called the HIV/AIDS problem “staggering� in Africa,

New insights into vaccination for HIV  -  Jan 24, 2008
EurekAlert (press release),An HIV vaccine is urgently needed. A major hurdle is the rapid evolution of HIV and its ability to mutate to escape effective immunity.

Semen Boosts HIV Spread  -  Jan 22, 2008
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),SEVI's effects in enhancing viral infection and its relatively low toxicity suggest it could be used to help boost the potency of an HIV vaccine.

News and notes on Rochester health  -  Feb 6, 2008
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle,The event is sponsored by the University of Rochester Medical Center's HIV Vaccine Trials Unit, the School of Nursing and the Center for Community Health.


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