Prevention, treatment and cure of HIV infection

RJ Landovitz, H Scott, SG Deeks - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
The development of antiretroviral therapy for the prevention and treatment of HIV infection
has been marked by a series of remarkable successes. However, the efforts to develop a …

Immune targeting of HIV-1 reservoir cells: a path to elimination strategies and cure

M Armani-Tourret, B Bone, TS Tan, W Sun… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Successful approaches for eradication or cure of HIV-1 infection are likely to include
immunological mechanisms, but remarkably little is known about how human immune …

Opportunities for CAR-T cell immunotherapy in HIV cure

G Campos-Gonzalez, J Martinez-Picado… - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) technology is having a huge impact in the blood
malignancy field and is becoming a well-established therapy for many types of leukaemia. In …

Vedolizumab and ART in recent HIV-1 infection unveil the role of α4β7 in reservoir size

MR Jimenez-Leon, C Gasca-Capote… - JCI …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND We evaluated the safety and viral rebound, after analytical treatment
interruption (ATI), of vedolizumab and ART in recent HIV-1 infection. We used this model to …

Safety and immunogenicity of the ChAdOx1–MVA-vectored conserved mosaic HIVconsvX candidate T-cell vaccines in HIV-CORE 005.2, an open-label, dose …

N Borthwick, N Fernandez, PJ Hayes, EGT Wee… - The Lancet …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Background An HIV-1 vaccine is long overdue. Although vaccine research focuses on the
induction of broadly neutralising antibodies, challenging infections such as HIV-1 could …

Strategies to target the central nervous system HIV reservoir

A Mastrangelo, L Gama, P Cinque - Current Opinion in HIV and …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Targeting the CNS remains a potential problem for the currently investigated HIV curing
strategies. In vivo evidence on CNS effectiveness is limited for most of the investigated …

[HTML][HTML] Oncoviruses: how do they hijack their host and current treatment regimes

K Ahmed, S Jha - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews on …, 2023 - Elsevier
Viruses have the ability to modulate the cellular machinery of their host to ensure their
survival. While humans encounter numerous viruses daily, only a select few can lead to …

Immunogenic arenavirus vector SIV vaccine reduces setpoint viral load in SIV-challenged rhesus monkeys

AV Boopathy, B Sharma, A Nekkalapudi, R Wimmer… - npj Vaccines, 2023 - nature.com
HIV affects more than 38 million people worldwide. Although HIV can be effectively treated
by lifelong combination antiretroviral therapy, only a handful of patients have been cured …

Harnessing immune cells to eliminate HIV reservoirs

P Grasberger, AR Sondrini… - Current Opinion in HIV …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Several studies have shown promise in many preclinical models of disease, including
simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)/SHIV infection in nonhuman primates and HIV infection …

[HTML][HTML] Generating and measuring effective vaccine-elicited HIV-specific CD8+ T cell responses

GM Borgo, RL Rutishauser - Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Identifying a vaccine capable of generating durable T cell responses that target mutationally
vulnerable epitopes and that can rapidly intercept infecting or rebounding virus remains a …